He laid the foundations of his academic reputation with a few books of a specialized nature: The Legend of the Great Wall and the Genre of Chinese Folk Literature, A Chinese Folk Literary Tradition--The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and From Myth to Classical Novels. All of these books were closely connected to folk literature.
奠立他學術地位的幾部專著：「萬里長城的傳說與中國民間文學的體裁」、「中國歷史演義與民間傳統﹘﹘三國演義」、「從神話到章回小說」，也都和民間文學密切相關。