He represented Hong Kong at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2012; his essay collection, Land and Words: Recollections on Places of Hong Kong and Its Literature, received the Hong Kong Book Prize in 2014; and he was named 2015 Artist of the Year (Arts Criticism) by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. His collections of poems include Life in Mono (2002), Lo-fi Sound (2004), and To Hell with the Market (2008).