In 2008, Kan made her acting debut in the television series The Dream of Red Mansions based on the novel by the same name by Cao Xueqin.
[1] She then portrayed young Empress Dowager Cixi in the 2010 historical drama The Firmament of the Pleiades .
[3] In 2013, Kan gained recognition for her performance as a black-bellied in the romance drama Shining Days.
[4] In 2014, Kan starred in the period romance drama Moment in Peking based on Lin Yutang's novel of the same name.
[12] The same year she starred in the romance anthology film Adoring directed by Xu Zheng.