 His translation of "An Actor Prepares" of Stanislavski, co-authored by Zhang Min, was the first systematic work on art performing in plays in China.Zheng also authored the book "Art History of World's Movies".At the time when no one in China dared to break ideological shackle and compare films of the western world with ones of the Soviet Union, it was a breakthrough by Zheng to write a chronicle of world films from a universal perspective.