- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1983 to 2009)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1973 to 1983)
- University Lecturer, then Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford (from 1959 to 1971)
- Research Student, National Peking University (from 1948 to 1951)
- Chinese Hons Scholar, University of Oxford (from 1945 to 1947)
- Undergraduate, Christ Church (from 1941 to 1943)
- Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess: a thirteenth-century Zaju play by Shang Zhongxian (2003)
- J. Minford and Siu-kit Wong (eds), Classical, Modern and Humane: essays in Chinese Literature (1989)
- The Story of the Stone, vol. 1 (1973), vol. 2 (1977), vol. 3 (1980)
- A Little Primer of Tu Fu (1967, repr. 1987)
- Ch’u Tz’ŭ, Songs of the South (1959, rev. edn as The Songs of the South: an Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets, 1985)