In August 1937, at the start of the Battle of Shanghai, the school evacuated to Lushan, Jiangxi, and eventually ended up in Changsha, where it was located when he graduated in 1938.
After the war he was stationed in Hong Kong, where he set up the Kuomintang's Overseas Publishing Company (海外出版社), and then returned to Shanghai to take up the position of general manager of the China Cultural Service.
After the retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan in 1949, he first went again to Hong Kong, where he worked for an American publishing company (思文出版社) producing anti-Communist pamphlets.
[6] During his tenure at CMPC, Kong drew inspiration from the technical style of Italian neorealist films, but sought to avoid their pessimistic themes.
He thus brought to CMPC a style he dubbed healthy realism [zh] in films such as Li Hsing's The Oyster Girl (1963) and Beautiful Duckling (1964).
Kong further supported Li Hsing in making film adaptations of the romance novels of Chiung Yao, namely Four Loves and The Silent Wife (1965).