Her representative works include the films The Piano in a Factory, Return Ticket, Cliff Walkers, Young Style, A Tale of Three Cities and Hide and Seek. Since starting her film career she has created many memorable screen characters. She has won many major film awards, including Best New Performer at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Best Actress at the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards, and Best Leading Actress, Best New Performer and Best Original Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan. Home Sweet Home, the first film she directed, was selected for the main competition of the Golden Goblet Awards at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival and won Best Actor. She has served as a jury member for the Golden Goblet Awards of the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Tiantan Awards of the Beijing International Film Festival and the Cairo International Film Festival, among others.