Qian Zhongshu
Wen became a professor of English language and literature in 1925, teaching at various institutions including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Peking Women’s College of Education in 1920s Peking and Kwang Hua University in 1930s Shanghai. Some of his notable students were Liang Yuchun, Qian Zhongshu, Cao Yu, Li Jianwu. He became a contributing editor of the English-language weekly The China Critic (1928–1940, 1946) and editor-in-chief of the English T'ien Hsia Monthly (1935–1941).