胡適
Ding authored "The Textbook of Zoology". His geological exploitation materials were compiled into "Mr. Ding Wenjiang's Geological Investigation Report", and published in 1947. Ding was also the first Chinese scholar to systematically study the written words of Yi ethnicity (see Fiskesjö 2011). Hu Shih wrote "Biography of Ding Wenjiang", and commented that he is "a most Europeanized Chinese, and a most scientifically styled Chinese." (Hu Shih: "Ding Wenjiang"). At the time of his death, he was working on a comprehensive book on the archaeology of ancient China.