Career
He was executed under the Qing government"s literary inquisition policies during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor. Wang was born in 1713. He locked himself in a room, studying day and night, and was sent home-cooked meals through a small crevice.
Wang became a scholar-bureaucrat at age 38.
He wrote a book called Zi Guan (字贯), which criticized the Kangxi Dictionary and printed the emperor"s name without leaving out a stroke as required by Chinese naming taboo. When the Qianlong Emperor found out about this in 1777, Wang was imprisoned in Beijing and sentenced to nine familial exterminations, the most serious form of capital punishment in imperial China.