He was familiar enough with English to get around and he had read extensively on the New York art world so was not as lost as many of the artists arriving in the city. Since his days as a junior high school student at the Chien Kuo middle school he had fastidiously read up on the world of modern art.
紐約是世界藝術之都，人文薈萃，想要在當地畫壇獲得青睞，實屬不易，不僅從外國來的畫家會惶恐，美國本土畫家也不見得有多大的把握。