Kuang has created artworks in response to many subjects considered sensitive by authorities in China, such as the tainted milk scandal and the activities of dissidents such as Chen Guangcheng.[6]
He was demoted by Southern Metropolis daily after depicting a journalist, Chang Ping in a stranglehold, after Chang had been barred from writing for two newspapers due to controversy over his article Tibet: Nationalist Sentiment and the Truth.[2]
In 2013, he created a cartoon condemning the execution of street vendor Xia Junfeng who had been charged with murder, after claiming self-defence during an attack by chengguan, or urban law enforcement officers.[7] In 2015, Kuang was one of three Chinese cartoonists who created works expressing displeasure at the French comic magazine Fluide Glacial, for its portrayal of the Chinese people.[8] In February 2020, he portrayed Li Wenliang, the Wuhan physician who warned about and died in the COVID-19 outbreak.[9]
David Bandurski, a researcher with the University of Hong Kong, says the internet has dramatically changed the environment for Chinese political cartoonists, who now have a good platform to find an audience.[10]
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