He is a polyglot, familiar with Classical Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, and Spanish, as well as Chinese and English.
One of his poems, Listening to Louis Chen's Zither, was selected into the Chinese textbooks for secondary school students in Hong Kong.
Most of his books are published in Taiwan, including the ground-breaking Dante translation, though he lives and works in Hong Kong.
On Listening to Louis Chen's Zither (Traditional Chinese: 聽陳蕾士的琴箏) is a poem by the Hong Kong poet Wong Kwok Pun.
The poem has been included as an essential text in Hong Kong secondary school textbooks since the 1990s.