Wang Meng has published over 60 books since 1955, including six novels, ten short-story collections, as well as other works of poetry, prose and critical essays.
In 1956 Wang published a controversial piece, "The Young Newcomer in the Organizational Department" (组织部来了个年轻人). This caused a great uproar.[2]
100 Glimpses into China: Short Short Stories from China (by Wang Meng,Feng Jicai,Wang Zengqi and others) (Xu Yihe and Daniel J. Meissner). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.
Alienation (Nance T. Lin and Tong Qi Lin). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., 1993.
Bolshevik Salute: A Modernist Chinese Novel (Wendy Larson). Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.
Prize-winning Stories from China, 1978-1979 (byLiu Xinwu, Wang Meng, and others). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981.
Snowball (Cathy Silber and Deirdre Huang). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.
The Butterfly and Other Stories (intro. by Rui An). Beijing: Chinese Literature,1983.
The Strain of Meeting (Denis C. Mair). Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.
The Stubborn Porridge and Other Stories (Zhu Hong). New York: George Braziller, 1994.
Wonderful Xinjiang: A photographic journey of China's largest province as told through the pen of Wang Meng. Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, 2004.
On the Road at Eighteen, which portrays a young man sent on the road by his father, and who is attacked by a group of peasants-turned-robbers, 1986.[6]: 196
