[5] After college, Kong went back to China, where she taught at a girls' school.

[5] In the United States again after 1942, she wrote a pamphlet of recipes, Chinese rice bowl: Chinese dishes in American kitchens (1943), taught citizenship classes,[6] and spoke about China to women's groups.

"[3] Anna Kong married attorney Hua-Chuen Mei in 1916, in China.

[16] They lived in Shanghai for 23 years,[17] and had three children, Lincoln, Julia, and Elizabeth (Betty).

[18] She returned to California as a wartime refugee,[19] while her husband was a prisoner of war, held by the Japanese in the Philippines.