Even before reaching his 30th year, he won the adulation of the literary world with his works The Chess King and The Anger of Yesterday. The Chess King, in fact, was selected by Asia Weekly as one of the 100 greatest Chinese novels of the 20th century. It is also the book that has found the greatest popularity with readers, and the work that the author himself finds most satisfying.
不到三十歲，他就以《棋王》、《昨日之怒》等小說享譽文壇，尤其《棋王》曾被「亞洲周刊」入選為二十世紀一百大中文小說，是最受讀者歡迎、作者最心愛的作品。