Liang Shih‐Chiu retired from NTNU in 1966, and in April 1970, he went to visit his daughter Liang Wen‐chiang in Seattle with his wife. They stayed there for four months before returning to Taiwan to write Seattle Miscellanea , documenting the difficulty of going abroad under martial law regulations, their travels through different parts of the U.S., and the wonderful experience shared among the three generations of his family. In 1972, he moved to live with his daughter in Seattle. Unfortunately, an accident in 1974 killed his wife Cheng Chi‐Shu, and Seattle became a place of grief. He wrote Huaiyuan Mengyi to commemorate her life.
This video documents Liang Shih‐Chiu and his family while they were in Taiwan between 1967 and 1968 and their travels in the United States in 1970. It includes a family Christmas celebration, a grandson’s birthday party, and their visit to the Statue of Liberty and Niagara Falls, which were mentioned in Seattle Miscellanea.
Between 1966 and 1970, Liang Shih‐Chiu communicated with his daughter Liang Wenchiang and her family through audio cassettes. These recordings document the stories Liang Shih‐Chiu read to his grandchildren Chiu Chun‐Ta and Chiu Chun‐Mai.
After Cheng Chi‐Shu’s death in 1974, Liang met Han Ching‐Ching. His emotional journey is witnessed in five selected letters between Liang and his long‐term colleague Chen Hsiu‐Ying.
Chen Hsiu‐Ying: Associate Professor of English at NTNU. She entered NTNU as an English major in 1958 and helped Liang Shih‐Chiu compile his English‐Chinese dictionary. After graduating in 1964, she became a teaching assistant at the Graduate School of English. She was under the care of Liang, and they have a relationship akin to that of a father and daughter.
