 He has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), "Artist Profile" magazine and on the cover of "The Wall Street Journal Asia Weekend Magazine".He is part of a movement of contemporary Chinese artists whose work is characterised as Cynical Realism, which began in the 1990s in Beijing.Born a year after the Great Leap Forward, his art is heavily influenced by the last fifty years of political upheaval and violence in China, a period that included the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s, the Sino Vietnamese war in the early 1980s, and the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.