Apart from National Taiwan University, Harro von Senger also studied at the Mandarin Training Center of National Taiwan Normal University, where he began his research into the "Thirty-Six Stratagems."
他也不時發揮瑞士人一板一眼的求真精神，根據他在瑞士鄉間成長的經驗，寫文章分析課文，中學課文「貓捕雀」中，雛鳥為保護母鳥，「每進益怒」是不可能發生。也是這股追根究底的脾氣，他開始了卅六計的研究。