But after her son and daughter were both in school, she went back to college again--this time to study art. Her doctoral dissertation was a study of the Chinese painter Ch'i Pai-shih (1864-1957).
因此，在一雙兒女入學之後，她也再進學校上課，並以「齊白石其人其畫及中國藝術精神」的研究，拿到博士學位。