A Ph.D. in soil and agricultural sciences from the University of Hawaii, he returned to Taiwan four years ago. In Taiwan he specialized in recultivation of seeds from rare and precious local varieties of trees. Because he made a major breakthrough in asexual propagation, he had just begun to earn a reputation. Yet it was just at this point that he chose to pull up roots.
他是夏威夷大學農藝土壤系博士，四年前回國，在台灣從事原生珍貴樹種的復育﹘ ﹘特別是牛樟的種源蒐集及繁殖培育，因在無性繁殖上有重大突破，聲譽才剛鵲起，他卻已要選擇離開了。