Wang was in good company on campus despite the short span of his Grinnell career, since a cohort of Nankai alumni also arrived in 1917 and remained highly active. For example, in October 1917 Wang joined Nankai alumni Wen Chien Feng, Fan Yi Kung, Kuang Chao Lee, Feng Tsai, and Chuang Liu to celebrate at Professor Stoops’s house the founding of the Republic of China. They introduced the history and culture of the Republic of China while also giving musical performances (SB 10/13/1917). That winter the six of them hosted a dinner in honor of Professor Jesse Macy (SB 02/09/1918). They also entertained James Chuan, Secretary of the Chinese Students’ Christian Association who was visiting from Chicago and who spoke at Grinnell’s Chapel service (SB 01/16/1918). In spring 1918 the six of them (plus Chin Huang) held a dinner at the Monroe Hotel in town in honor of J. J. Heeren, a Presbyterian missionary who had worked in China; Professors Ryan and Hartson and their wives were also in attendance (SB 04/17/1918). 

After Grinnell Wang enrolled at the University of Chicago where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1920 and a doctorate in education in 1922; the title of his doctoral dissertation was “The Influence of Tuition in the Acquisition of Skill.”  After he returned to China, he worked as a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1924 and from 1924 to 1926 was Chief of General Affairs at Tsing Hua. Between 1929 and 1934 he worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Nationalist government, while also teaching at Peking Normal University, Great China University, and Central University. Starting in the mid-1930s Wang turned to business and banking, holding executive positions at a variety of businesses, banks, and insurance companies. 

Wang left banking after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. In 1965 he was elected to the standing committee of the China Democratic League of Jing’an District in Shanghai. Wang also co-translated into Chinese a few canonical works in economics, including A Treatise on Money by John Maynard Keynes. We do not know when Wang passed away.