[5] Instead, she enrolled herself in a vocational school and eventually started working as a teacher for primary school-age children.

[3] With several years of work experience, Wang studied English literature at a local university's continuing education program.

After that, she was granted a full fellowship from Shanghai University while enrolled in a graduate program for English language and literature.

It tells the story of Chinese human rights activists, including Ye Haiyan (the titular "Hooligan Sparrow"), fighting to bring accountability to government officials who allegedly sexually assaulted several young girls.

I’ve known Hooligan Sparrow–her name is Ye Haiyan–for a long time through social media, but I had never seen her in person at the time.”[7] When creating the film Wang was not aware that this would make her a target for government surveillance, later stating that she "knew very little about the activist world".

[7] Wang has noted that her family and friends were followed and interrogated by officers who questioned whether or not they knew her, her whereabouts, and her current actions.

[8] Wang directed the documentary Night Is Not Eternal, which follows Rosa María Payá Acevedo over the course of several years, and is scheduled to premiere November 2024 on HBO.

[13] In 2021 she was selected as a Jury member for the BIFF Mecenat Award at the 26th Busan International Film Festival to be held in October.