sentences:  The following year, he set out to study Chinese in Paris at the French School of Oriental Languages (now INALCO) and pursued his studies in Beijing from 1963 to 1966 at the Preparatory School for Foreign Students and then at the Department of Chinese Literature (classical literature) at Peking University.He witnessed the climactic period of Maoism and the onset of the Cultural Revolution.In early 1966, he married Ts'ui Wen 崔文 who at the time was practicing medicine.