Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t51.3

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In late 1940s, he returned to China at the invitation of Zhu Jiahua, Minister of Education of the ROC and joined the Department of Language of Zhongshan University. In 1950, when he was studying in the fourth division of Southern University, he wrote to Zhu Kezhen, the then Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences and expressed his wish of going to work in India or Tibet, but failed. In the summer of 1954, he was transferred back to Beijing together with Wang Li, Cen Linxiang et al., because the merger of the Department of Language of Zhongshan University into the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University. He taught the course of “Chinese phonology” in Peking University. After 1957, he successively worked with the intelligence research office of the Department of Philosophy and Social Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences (predecessor of Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Beijing Nationality University (Minzu University of China today). He stopped working between 1967 and 1973 as a result of the Cultural Revolution.