Chinese film theorist, the doctoral supervisor of Peking university Jinhua Dai, argues that she is not only a film director but also a film theorist. Her journal article The Film Language' s Modernization which she co-authored with her husband Li Tuo, is being considered as the manifesto of new era Chinese cinema.Dai, Jinhua. "The visible and the invisible: The Chinese Female Film and Chinese Female Film Maker." September 23, 2013. -http://www.doc88.com/p-4774137693988.html Another film theorist, Zhenqin Zhang, argues that she is the pioneer of Chinese film realistic aesthetics and Chinese women cinema.Zhang, Zhenqin. From “self-consciousness” to “freedom”—The studies of Nuanxin Zhang’s filmmaking." Films in the new period, from 1977-1987, 1988, 87-98.
