FBI pressure on the Chin family eased off by December 1957. For the first time in several years, letters and packages arrived undisturbed from Hong Kong. On January 12, 1959, FBI agents visited Tung Pok Chin and indicated that they no longer viewed him as a threat to the U.S. government. The FBI did not contact Chin again. Later that year, the Reverend Louis T. Buchheimer left True Light Lutheran Church for missionary work in the Philippines. These two events motivated Chin to write again. Chin dedicated his first new poem since 1955 to the Reverend Buchheimer.

In 1967, when Wilson entered college with the intent to major in aeronautical engineering, Tung Pok Chin temporarily ceased writing. Chin was concerned that his background might prevent Wilson from obtaining the requisite security clearance to work for the federal government, one of few options available to aeronautic majors. Wilson subsequently earned engineering degrees at Cal Tech and MIT and then went to work in private industry.

Winifred earned degrees in philosophy and religion and became a professor of religious studies. In 1975, while taking a course in Contemporary Chinese Poetry at Seton Hall University, Winifred was surprised to find her father's poetry among other poetry studied. When he was certain that his writings would not harm his children's professional careers, Chin resumed his writing career in the mid-1970s.

Tung Pok Chin retired from the laundry business in 1978, but continued to write columns and poetry for the China Daily News. He also worked on his memoirs and taught English at a seniors' center in Chinatown.

In 1986, Chin was reunited in New York City with Lai Wai Yong, his younger son from his first marriage. Lai Wai Yong had married and was now the warden at the Clear Water Correctional Facility in Hong Kong. Tung Pok Chin died two years later, in 1988.

I could not help but believe that I had made the right choice in coming to settle in Gold Mountain. No, life has not been easy, to say the least, but as I stand here on Gold Mountain soil I do see the stability of life and the secure futures for my son and daughter that could never have been back in China. Yes, this is where we will remain. This is the land of opportunity indeed, and despite the trials and tribulations of McCarthyism I have come out victorious in the end and am my own free person again."