Looking at his string of works on the Chinese novel from his first collection of critical articles--From liu E to Wang Chen-he--to Novel China, David Wang is also a researcher / critic of Chinese fiction with "great ambitions."
而就他的第一本評論集＜從劉鶚到王禎和＞到＜小說中國＞一系列關於中國小說的論著上看，王德威顯然更是一位中國小說的「志意遠大」的研究．評論者。