Qianmu has a complicated relationship with the dialectical school of ancient history.

In the 1920s, Ku Shih Pien school quickly became the most important new school of Chinese History by the self-fashioning in a new science paradigm differing from the traditional research.

Qiu looked back upon the course of his studies and research, and talked freely on the problems of the "Ku-shih-pien" School, early Chinese history, the studies of excavated documents, "the .