His relatives were persecuted and had their property taken away, and he himself found his visit to China ending in precipitate flight to Hong Kong with nothing to his name except a small piece of jade given him by his grandmother.
此次提供九百多件珍品給史博館展出的名收藏家楊達志，也認為一般市面上常見的許多玉，根本不能稱之為玉，而只是「石之美者」。