She did her dissertation under Cambridge University professor L.E.R. Picken, a scholar of Tang dynasty music who transcribed "The Emperor Destroys the Formations" into modern staff notation. Thus teacher and student were able to work together to fully reconstruct this dance.
值得一提的是，她的論文由劍橋大學的畢鏗教授指導，他專門研究唐代音樂，曾把「皇帝破陣樂」的古樂譜翻譯成五線譜，於是師徒二人合作完成了這支舞的重建。