 In later years, he continued teaching and writing, publishing a comprehensive essay on China's folk music in 1959.In 1962 he was promoted to lecturer at the Shanghai Conservatory, and deputy director of its musical theory department the following year.In 1965 he was appointed member of the Drama Reform and Creative Group, and worked on musical embellishment of "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy", one of the "eight model revolutionary theatrical works" re-elaborated by Jiang Qing.