[1][2] He graduated from the Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 1987, and worked for six years at the Zhejiang Film Studio.
It features a song by rock singer Cui Jian, Greenhouse Girl, "as a commentary on a young photographer's painstaking, solitary struggle within a commodified society and his yearnings for artistic and personal freedom.
"[4] In 2005, Sensitive Age was recognized as one of 100 outstanding masterpieces in three hundred years across the Straits of Chinese films, representing 1994.
After he returned home from the international film festivals, China revoked Ah Nian's directing qualifications.
[2][5] It has been described as "a labyrinthine narrative about lonely city dwellers desperately trying (and failing) to connect"[6] Again, because of the film's sensitive subject matter regarding AIDS, the film was not released in China, but was screened at Lincoln Center in New York,[6] New York University, and the Washington National Art Festival.