 In the late 1920s, Liang retired from politics and taught at the Tung-nan University in Shanghai and the Tsinghua Research Institute in Peking as a tutor.He founded the "Chiang-hsüeh sheh" (Chinese Lecture Association) and brought many intellectual figures to China, including Driesch and Tagore.Academically he was a renowned scholar of his time, introducing Western learning and ideology, and making extensive studies of ancient Chinese culture.