Wang masters Chinese, classical Greek, Latin, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Hebrew.
[1] In the Chinese academic society, he was accounted as the only scholar who has the ability to talk with Qian Zhongshu in different languages.
[1] Wang was a graduate student in English language at the Peking University, he stayed at home learned Japanese, German and Italian by himself about seven years.
[1] After the founding of the Communist State, Wang worked in the People's Literature Publishing House.
[1] In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, Wang was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to work in Xianning.