As the first completed work on the history of kunju, A History of Kunju Performances has shown great impact on academic world in China. Kunju has been considered a high-level traditional Chinese drama, and aims at elegance and delicacy in its performance. It is the shi(literati), rather than the actors, who played the premier roles in kunju activities. However, this book bases its argument on the concept of "juzhong"(genre; different categories of traditional Chinese drama classified according to their regions), disregarding the role that the literati played in the promotion of theatre culture in the high-level society, which perhaps deviated from its true history. It is necessary to reexamine the paradigm of history in order to avoid the loss of kunju’s own cultural characters.