 These pronouncements and his dislike for the excessive influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other Romanticists in China triggered a polemic war between him and Lu Xun and drew the concerted attacks of leftist writers.His major works as a translator included James Barrie's "Peter Pan", George Eliot's "Silas Marner" and "Mr. Gilfil's Love Story", and Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights".In 1949, to escape the civil war, Liang fled to Taiwan where he taught at Taiwan Normal University until his retirement in 1966.