Li Shih-ch'iao commands a going rate of NT $ 30,000 per hao now, but he isn't rushing to cash in on the superheated market and he opposes the tiny number of old painters who have been.
民國七十一年，他租用新生南路周氏祀堂舊址、苦心經營多年的畫室被周氏家族收回，當時已七十四歲的他痛心極了，多方求援後還是難逃被「趕走」的命運。