The journal, Jīntiān ran from 1978 to 1980 until Deng Xiaoping, a new Chinese statesman halted the publication due to suspicions of ideological nonconformity.
[6] In the early 1980s, she achieved prominence as the leading female representative of the Misty Poets.
She was asked to join the official Chinese Writers' Association,[3] and won the National Outstanding Poetry Award in 1981 and 1983.
[4][8] During the "anti-spiritual pollution" movement that was launched in 1983, she, like other writers that were thought to be subversive by the state, was heavily criticized.
[2] Many of her works were published during the Cultural Revolution and were scrutinized by the government, even if they did not have direct political references.