[2] After retiring from UBC, she taught at Nankai University in Tianjin, where she was the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture.

She was admitted to the Chinese department of Fu Jen Catholic University (Beijing) in 1941, where she studied under the well known scholar of poetry Gu Sui [zh].

[4][5] After graduating in 1945, she taught in the then capital Nanjing, and married Chao Chung-sun (赵钟荪), a navy employee, in March 1948.

By the end of the year, the Kuomintang government was losing the Chinese Civil War and began its retreat to Taiwan.

[2] Writers Pai Hsien-yung, Chen Yingzhen, Xi Murong, and Jiang Xun [zh] were some of her students.

She said that in mainland China there was a great desire to rediscover classical Chinese literature after the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.

[2] In May 2014, Nankai University held the Chinese Poetry International Seminar to commemorate Chia-ying Yeh's 90th birthday.

[2][6] One is called the Yongyan (Yung-Yen; 咏言) Scholarship, which combines the given names of her elder daughter Chao Yen-yen and son-in-law Chung Yung-t'ing (钟咏庭), who died together in a car accident in 1976.

Her only major publication in English was Studies in Chinese Poetry (1998), co-written with Harvard University scholar James Robert Hightower.