wang is also a novelist and playwright for stage and ballet. at 24, wang wrote the novel "waiting for summer", loosely based on his early experiences studying and living in the united states. wang published the novel in 2006, first serially in the acclaimed chinese literary magazine "harvest", and then as an independent work a year later. in 2011, wang wrote "the residential compound", a stage play about urban development and relocation in beijing. in the same year, wang wrote the libretto for the san francisco ballet's critically acclaimed "raku", a story about a "triangle of obsession" taking place in the tokugawa era.