On one visit back home, people who had once collaborated in his fieldwork asked him to help formulate a community development project for Puli, and a group that had taken part in his study of the Thao tribe asked him to get back into fieldwork.
有一次從紐西蘭回埔里，昔日的工作伙伴們又找上他，邀他共同投入規劃埔里的發展藍圖；邵族的田野調查伙伴也力邀他重回田野調查的行列。