In September 1931, Shu returned to China, largely due to pressure from his mother to marry his fiancée, Ge Chuhua. Shu's first position was in physics at the Whampoa Military Academy but in September 1932, invited by the chair of the Department of Physics of Zhejiang University, he began teaching there. In August 1935, Shu became chairperson of the Department of Mathematics of Jinan University, which was at that time located in Shanghai. Shu was also an adjunct lecturer at Jiaotong University. In April 1936, President Coching Chu of Zhejiang University invited him to return to that institution, where, in August 1936, Shu was promoted to the rank of associate professor, then in 1937, professor. At Zhejiang University, he collaborated closely with Kan-Chang Wang. During this period, some famous students of his include: Cheng Kaijia, Xu Liangying, Hu Jimin, and Zhou Zhicheng. Most notably, two of his students, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chien-Shiung Wu, went on to win the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics for their work on the violation of parity conservation in weak interactions; Lee for the theory and Wu for the experimental verification.
From 1949 to 1979
In 1952, Shu was transferred to the Department of Physics at Shandong University in Jinan, Shandong Province, then in 1954 to its Department of Oceanography. In 1956, classified as a leader of anti-revolutionary forces, Shu was purged. In June 1958, during the Anti-Rightist Movement, Shu was denounced as an ultra-rightist and an anti-revolutionary. Under the program of "reform through labor", he was sent to work on the construction of the Yuezikou Reservoir in Qingdao. In 1960, Shu was transferred to the Qingdao Medical College as a teacher, although he was also obliged to clean toilets in the college and to wash lab equipment. On 11 September 1974, Shu partially regained his normal life. In 1978, Shu was transferred to the Chinese State Oceanic Administration where he became a professor and senior researcher for oceanic dynamics at its First Research Institute of Oceanography. In the 1970s, Shu did successful calculations for the Pacific Ocean test of the Dongfeng Vintercontinental ballistic missile. In 1979, when the Oceanic Physics Branch of the Chinese Society of Oceanography was established in Guangzhou, Shu was elected its honorary director-general. In December 1979, the Chinese government completely removed Shu's classification as a rightist and anti-revolutionary, restoring his reputation.
From 1979 to his death
In August 1981, Shu was elected honorary director-general of the Shandong Society of Physics and, in that same year, he was named honorary director of the Qingdao Society of Physics. Shu Xingbei died on 30 October 1985, at the age of 77.
Personal life
Shu Xingbei married Ge Chuhua in 1931. The couple had seven children: Shu Yuexin, Shu Huxin, Shu Xiaoxin, Shu Qingxin, Shu Yixin, Shu Runxin and Shu Meixin.
Selected publications
Soh, Hsin P., A new law of planetary distances and orbital velocities, Popular Astronomy, Vol. 35, p. 327
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Hsin P. Soh; Theory of gravitation and electromagnetism, 1934, 国立浙江大学科学报告, 1:135-142
Hsin Pei Soh; Relativity transformations connecting two systems in arbitrary acceleration. Nature, 1946, 58:99-100
