1.Well, he came back with enthusiasm for work, but he hadn’t get the projects which was promised to be his; he enjoyed life but he had to pay half of his salary for his single apartment; he loved his family, but his wife together with his daughter struggled in his hometown; he came back to look for a kind, trustworthy, human academia but only found a cruel, unreliable and ruthless fact just as he wrote in his last words.

2.He first time read it by borrowing it from his Chinese classmate at Oxford. And he was so enchanted by it. In order to translate the book, he even resigned from his chair at Oxford.