Yangming's curriculum
Courses taught include A Brief History of China Literature, History of Tang Dynasty Literature, History of China Literary Criticism, Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi, Literary Criticism in Wei and Jin Dynasties, Wen Xin Diao Long, Poems of Southern Dynasties, Li Bai, Jiang Zhai Shi Hua and so on.

The course "History of China Literary Criticism" co-taught with other professors won the first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award in June 1997 and the first prize of the Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award in April 1998.