Min GAN: The phantom returns: on Lilian Lee's three supernatural stories. Thesis and Dissertation. Hrsg.: University of Iowa. 1. Auflage. Iowa City 2010, S.8 (englisch, 74 S., psu.edu [PDF; 3,2MB; abgerufen am 19. September 2022] Dissertation an der Universität von Iowa): “This thesis, based on Green snake, The reincarnation of Golden Lotus, and Rouge, three novels written by Hong Kong author Lilian Lee, discusses the respective supernatural heroines in relation to the Chinese folklore and to the Hong Kong status quo before the 1997 handover, seeking to find the allegorical significance behind the heroines beyond the genre of fantastic.”
Yat-Lim LAM 林逸濂: The society of Hong Kong in Lilian Lee's fiction – 李碧華小說中的香港社會. Thesis and Dissertation. Hrsg.: University of Hong Kong. 1. Auflage. Hong Kong August 2009 (chinesisch, 50 S., Archivtext. (Memento vom 22. September 2022 im Internet Archive) [PDF; 410kB; abgerufen am 13. April 2023] Dissertation an der Universität von Hong Kong).