A factual account of the course of the ten-year Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry, based on documents issued during the Cultural Revolution, talks by Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi, and the manuscripts of those concerned, as well as interviews with Foreign Ministry staff members who took part in the events.

Since 1981, she was the Editor in charge of the "Opinion Page" of China Daily and later at the academic quarterly called Social Sciences in China until her retirement in 1994.