Her first short story collection, So Black (《好黑》), was published in 2005, winning the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature the following year.
Snow and Shadow is a collection of short stories from her earlier Chinese books, as well as previously unpublished works, translated by Nicky Harman.
[7] Tse's first solo novel, Owlish [zh], about a professor who falls in love with a mechanical ballerina, was published in Chinese by Aquarius (寶瓶文化) in 2020.
Harman describes her writing as: “surreal tales—fantastic in parts—but made the more effective for being grounded firmly in reality... Dreamscapes interlock with a narrative which, though superficially realistic, itself feels quite unreal.”[13] Similarly, Kit Fan notes in a review of Owlish that the novel inhabits an "uncanny realm in which fiction becomes a series of Russian dolls combining dream and reality.
Hoffman and Angela Carter, noting along with other critics, however, the extent to which Tse's work is grounded in the unique social and political history of Hong Kong.