[2] His collections of short stories include My Faraway Clear Peace River (我的遥远的清平湾) (1985) and Sunday (礼拜日) (1988).
[2] A collection of English-language translations of his short stories was published in 1991 as Strings of Life.
In selecting it as a notable work of Chinese literature since 1949 which could qualify as an overlooked classic, Professor Shelley W. Chan of Wittenberg University said Notes on Principles was comparable to yet more profound than Soul Mountain by Nobel Prize-winner Gao Xingjian.
[6] In 1998, his kidneys began to fail and he subsequently required dialysis three times weekly.
[7] He received the Lao She Literature Prize for Fragments Written at the Hiatuses of Sickness (病隙碎笔)(2002).