[1] The city of Chengdu, which was the last stronghold of the Chinese Nationalists, fell to Mao Zedong's Communist forces on 25 December 1949.

[1] The Communist authorities shuttered the Institute of Chinese and Western Cultural Studies and confiscated the books in its library.

[1] Winance was accused by police in 1952 of being a member of the Legion of Mary, which the Chinese government alleged was a seditious organization.

The group travelled nearly 3,000 miles under armed guard by bus, train, junk and foot to Guangzhou and then the British controlled colony of Hong Kong.

[1] Following his expulsion from China, Winance was sent to Rome, where he taught philosophy at Sant'Anselmo, a Benedictine college, for four years.