In February last year he bumped into Shen Chin at Hong Kong's Chinese University, talked things over, and on his return to the United States raised the money. Shen Chin arrived at Harvard in March. He planned to spend two years, write 700,000 characters, and publish two volumes of what Wu Wen-chin describes as "something up to standard."
去年二月，他在香港中文大學和沈津碰面、談妥，回美後隨即張羅經費；今年三月，沈津抵達哈佛，預計花兩年時間，寫七十萬字，出版兩本吳館長口中「夠標準的東西」﹘﹘善本書志。