He came to China twice in the 1940 s, during which by observing and rethinking of the terrible fate of the Chinese liberal intellectuals, the corrupt KMT government and the Communists, he came to the conclusion that KMT was doomed to fail and the United States had to readjust its policies to China.

The appearance and gathering of Beijing intelligentsia group is closely connected to the moving south of the Chinese political centre in late 1920s, intelligentsia of liberalism escaping from reality and politics, standing on the value itself of the cultural creation and the life choice of making their own detached spiritual world.