In October of 1925, he entered a Russian university set up especially for students from China. "I worked hard studying Russian, and also put effort into other Western disciplines such as economics," he wrote in his memoirs, My Days in Russia.
一九二五年十一月，進入當時專為中國留學生所創辦的孫逸仙大學，「苦修俄文，也對與西方有關的科目與政治及經濟學，下了一番功夫」，他在《我在蘇聯的日子》中寫道。