 Following the beginning of Reform and Opening, Dong Xi was able to join the Chinese department of Hechi Normal College (now known as Hechi University), a small college in northwestern Guangxi on the southern end of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.It was at school that Dong Xi began submitting work to literary journals and magazines, including "Tibet Literature", "West China Literature", and "Guangxi Literature".In the fall of 1992, Dong Xi broke into major literary magazines, publishing short fiction and two novellas in "Harvest", "Flower City" and "Chinese Writer".