[citation needed] Dung's writings were heavily influenced by the older generation of Hong Kong writers, including Liu Yichang, Leung Ping-kwan, and Xi Xi, who he claims were his most important sources of inspiration and models for aspiration.
Their works are representative of Hong Kong literature in terms of language, literary forms, and subject matter.
"[citation needed] The novel Beloved Wife has been deemed as Dung's most-strikingly experimental works with the attempt of trying to renegotiate the relationship between man and machines.
In his novels, he imagines AIs as having a human body in which the consciousness is connected to or replaced by an AI-like technology.
His view resonated with Martin Heidegger's idea of 'wordling', (Being and Time, 1927), whereby the world is not something out there, objectively there, or somewhere ideally there, and we set off to find it.