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In 1996 Karen Mok signed with Rock Records, and in 1997 went to Taiwan and released a first Mandarin record, "做自己"; thereafter the Mandarin pop market was the main focus, with albums including "我要說 I Say" (1998), "你可以" and "就是莫文蔚" (1999), "十二樓的莫文蔚" (2000) and "一朵金花" (2001); from 2001 to 2008 Karen Mok was at Sony Music. Karen Mok's lyrics are mainly in English, and all of them are for works Karen Mok sings: the first lyric written entirely in English was 1997's "Love Yourself", and Karen Mok kept taking part in lyric writing for several years after that, until 2002; afterward Karen Mok began trying composition, the earliest pieces appearing on the 2003 Mandarin album "X", namely "雙面" and "Love In The Present Tense". In 2003, with the album "[i]", Karen Mok won Best Female Mandarin Vocalist at the Golden Melody Awards. From "極度莫文蔚巡迴演唱會" in 2005 on, Karen Mok has been creative director of every concert. On the albums "拉活…" (2007) and "寶貝" (2010) Karen Mok wrote all the music, and "完美孤獨" was nominated for Best Composer at the Golden Melody Awards. In 2008 "拉活…" won Best Mandarin Album at the 19th Golden Melody Awards; among the nominees for Best Album Producer that year was the album's producer, Terry Chan. From 2009 to 2016 Karen Mok was at Universal Music.

In 2011, with "寶貝", Karen Mok won Best Female Mandarin Singer at the 22nd Golden Melody Awards. The Chinese Wikipedia records that, while accepting the award, Karen Mok announced on stage that Karen Mok would marry first love Johannes at the end of the year, and that the two held their wedding in Italy on October 1 of the same year.

In 2004 Karen Mok played 張愛玲 in the stage play "再生緣" at the "香港藝術文化節"; in 2006 Karen Mok joined the 10th-anniversary Asian tour of the Broadway musical Rent (South Korea, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei), playing Mimi. In 2008 Karen Mok signed with Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in the United States. Karen Mok appeared in "環遊世界八十天", released by Walt Disney Pictures; in 2012 Karen Mok played the female lead in "太極俠", the first film directed by Keanu Reeves, which opened worldwide in 2013; in 2014 Karen Mok was the lead actress in "催眠大師"; in 2016 Karen Mok appeared in "大話西遊3", again playing 白晶晶; in 2024 Karen Mok played Cecilia Fong in "焚城"; in 2026 Karen Mok appeared in "寒戰1994", a prequel in the "寒戰" series, playing 潘怡芝, a fourth-generation descendant of the 潘 family.

In 2013 Karen Mok released a first English album, "Somewhere I Belong", and held a small concert at the London jazz club Ronnie Scott's; the same year "莫后年代莫文蔚20週年巡迴演唱會" began (2013–2015, 28 shows). In 2016 "看看世界巡迴演唱會" was held in Italy and Spain. In 2017 Karen Mok won Best Asian Artist (Mandarin) at the Mnet Asian Music Awards. In 2018 Karen Mok returned to Sony Music and founded the label "Mok-A-Bye Baby Records", released the album "我們在中場相遇" the same year, and began "絕色莫文蔚25周年世界巡迴演唱會" (2018–2021, 48 shows). Guinness World Records records that Karen Mok's concert on October 12, 2019, in Lhasa, Tibet, was the large-audience concert at the highest altitude, 3,646.308 metres.

In 2020, ten years on, Karen Mok released the Cantonese song "呼吸有害"; on.cc reported that Karen Mok thereby became the first singer to have a No. 1 hit on all five charts. The song won the Ultimate Song Chart Supreme Song Award at the 2020 "叱咤樂壇流行榜頒獎典禮", the Global Chinese Supreme Gold Song at the 43rd Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, and the Jade Solid Gold gold award at the 2020 "勁歌金曲頒獎典禮". In 2021 the album "The Voyage" was released. In 2023 Karen Mok joined 地球娛樂; between 2023 and 2024 the 30th-anniversary exhibition "莫后光年展" was held in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Shanghai, Chengdu and Changsha. In 2024 Karen Mok formed the rock band Karen Mok & The Masters with Terry Chan (陳明道), 荒井十一 (Arai) and 李銖銜 (James Lee); on the evening of June 15 of the same year, Karen Mok's "大秀一场" concert opened at the Beijing National Stadium (Bird's Nest). Karen Mok has been an ambassador for UNICEF, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Animals Asia.