And in fact, Denis Twitchett of Cambridge University turned to Dr. Holzman for help with the portion of the Cambridge History of China devoted to the literature of just that period, which extends from the third to the sixth centuries. Born in the United States, Donald Holzman earned his first Ph.D. at Yale in 1957.
也因為如此，英籍漢學大師崔傑士（Denis C.Twit chett）在美國普林斯頓主編的「劍橋中國史」，其中漢魏六朝以迄隋初的文學史部分，就由侯思孟參與編寫。德裔，出生於美國，侯思孟的第一個博士學位得自耶魯大學。