He is perhaps best known for his book The Problem with Hu Shih's Wrongheaded Ideas, in which he argued that the literary reformers of the May Fourth Movement were destroying China's Confucian literature and visiting a disaster upon future generations. He was particularly derisive of vernacular Chinese literature, describing it as "the barking of dogs."
他曾經寫過《胡禍叢談》一書，認為五四提倡「打倒孔家店」、毀棄儒家文化，將會禍遺子孫，白話文更是「狗叫文」。