UP until very recently, when he was serving as Minister of Economic Affairs, he was "ashamed that he could not read the Chinese classics," and he specially asked an NTU professor to make a reading list, whose books he perused with great dedication.
直到前些年在經濟部長任內，因為實在感到「看不懂中國古籍是一種恥辱」，才請台大教授幫他開了一份書單，潛心研究。