 Some have suggested that it was his work that was the reason he suffered persecution at the hands of Wu Sansi; he died in 702 having been in and out of prison.Chen Zi'ang is well known for his collection of thirty-eight poems "Ganyu" (), written in a simpler vocabulary than typified the poetry of that time and which were heavily influenced by Daoism.He has one poem in the Three Hundred Tang Poems, translated by Witter Bynner as "On a Gate-tower at Yuzhou"