His works include concertos for erhu and bamboo flute, and an opera based on the life of the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai.
[2] He composed the score to several films, including Blush (1995), In the Heat of the Sun (1994), and Zhang Yimou's Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005).
His chamber opera Wolf Cub Village (1994) was created based on Lu Xun’s short story "Diary of a Madman".
Le Monde compared his “masterpiece of madness” to Berg's Wozzeck and Shostakovich's The Nose.2[2] The opera, Night Banquet, based on the story written by Zou Jingzhi, a Chinese playwright.
The author was inspired by Night Revels of Han Xizai, a court figure painting of the Southern Tang dynasty.
The Charleston Post and Courier reviewed that “Feng Yi Ting plays like a traditional Chinese theater piece.
On one level, that is, because on another very interesting level, it offers a deeper, poignant perspective on tradition vs. transition, on cross-pollination of cultures, on the age of globalization itself.”3 In the article “All the World On a Stage In America” by The New York Times, the opera was described as using “both Chinese and Western approaches to timbre, melody and hormone, oscillating between the styles and combining them with dazzling fluidity.
Shu Dao Nan (1987) is a symphonic poem by Guo Wenjing inspired by Li Bai's poetry.
Shu includes the Sichuan province and modern day Chongqing of China, Guo Wenjing's hometown.