Background
Wang is the daughter of a former professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University.
Wang is the daughter of a former professor of Chinese literature at Beijing University.
University of California, Los Los Angeles
In 1989 she was an Master of Arts student in modern Chinese literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She spent more than six months in hiding before going to the United States. in early 1990. Wang is the editor of One China, Many Paths, a collection of essays by contemporary Chinese intellectuals published by Verso in 2003.
She was a member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students in the spring of 1989 during the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and was put on the Chinese government"s "21 Most Wanted Beijing Student Leaders" list.