After Liang Shih‐Chiu returned to Taiwan and met Han Ching‐Ching (1931‐1994), he wrote thousands of love letters, and their romance caused a sensation. Impervious to gossip, Liang married Han on May 9th, 1974, and welcomed a new member to their family, Prince Baimao. He completed two major scholarly volumes in his twilight years, which earned him Taiwan’s National Award for Contribution to the Arts. Completed in seven years, A History of English Literature consisted of around one million Chinese characters, and An Anthology of English Literature was about 1.2 million characters in length.
In Liang Shih‐Chiu’s diary entry for March 30, 1978, he writes, “Ching‐ching brought home a kitten, and from this point on there would be mischief at home.” On Prince Baimao’s birthday, Liang would always write a commemorative essay about his love for the cat to be shared with fellow cat lovers. His daughter Liang Wenchiang once wrote, “Sometimes, I get confused as to who is the owner and who is the pet,” but appreciates the companionship Prince Baimao’s brings to her father, since “he did what I couldn’t do.”
After he finished translating Shakespeare, the retired Liang Shih‐Chiu began compiling his lecture notes into A History of English Literature. This was mentioned in a letter he sent to his daughter in 1969. However, the project was postponed due to his move to the United States, the death of Cheng Chi‐Shu, and his remarriage to Han Ching‐ching. A History of English Literature and An Anthology of English Literature were finally completed in 1979, and both works were published by Hsieh Chih Industrial Library Publishing Company in 1985.
