He had spent twelve years away from home, going through university, working in a factory, laboring on a farm, mining in Siberia, and detained by Stalin for rectification. It was only in the spring of 1937 that he finally received his permit to return to China.
他當時已在異鄉羈旅十二載，歷經大學深造、工廠勞動、農村耕作、西伯利亞開礦，並被史達林留作人質整肅，最後終於在一九三七年春天，獲准攜眷回國。