"[3] In addition to his poetry, he has published two essay volumes, one book of criticism, a play, and translations of works by Pound, Borges, and Miłosz, and others.

[5] At Beijing University, he wrote a senior thesis on Ezra Pound's translations of Chinese poetry, earning an English degree.

[5] After college, he worked as a magazine editor for Huangqiu (Globus) and launched Qingxiang (Tendency), an independent literary journal that ran from 1988 until it was shut down in 1992, after only 3 issues.

[3][5] This break took his poetry from "condensed, numinous lyricism" combining classical Chinese influences with Western modernism to "meditative, expansive prose poems that dismantled the aestheticism and musicality of his previous self".

[3] He teaches classical and modern Chinese literature at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and lives in Beijing, China.