Famous Hong Kong martial arts novelist Louis Cha, also Jin Yong, will quit his current position as head of Zhejiang University's Literature School and may go to Oxford University as a visiting scholar.

Pan Yunhe, president of East China's Zhejiang University, says the school has approved the writer's request to resign and is now targeting another celebrity to fill the position.

Cha has fulfilled his four-year term and will probably reside in Britain as a visiting scholar, under Oxford University's invitation, says Pan.

Cha is one of the most renowned martial arts writers in China. But the writer has been involved in swirls of gossip lately.

Last year his qualification was questioned by some scholars in China for being professor and head of the Literature School of Zhejiang University, one of China's most prominent universities. The rumpus ended with Cha's resignation proposal, which was declined by the school.

Earlier in March extracts from Cha's Eightfold Path of the Heavenly Dragon was included in high school textbooks as supplementary reading materials, which aroused another nationwide debate. His adversaries said martial arts novels should be excluded from textbooks because they lack educational functions and a sense of seriousness.

But according to an online survey at Sina.com, China's largest Internet portal, over 82 percent of people think the extract of Cha's martial arts novel deserves a place in textbooks for its literary value and popularity,

"His novels are better than some articles in current textbooks," said Liu Ximing, research fellow with the education science research institute at Beijing's Renmin University of China.

Editor: Catherine