[1] She met another member of this group, Hu Feng, in 1933 when he returned after being deported from Japan and the two married at the end of the year.

Whilst they moved, Hu increased the number of publications of his literary magazine Qi Yue (Chinese: 七月), which Mei copy-edited.

Mei's alleged crime was that she had transcribed Hu's book Sanshi fangyan (Chinese: 三十方言).

[2] Hu was released in late 1965 and was sent to live in Chengdu in early 1966, accompanied by Mei, under surveillance by the Sichuan Municipal Public Security Department.

In August, with the onset of the Cultural Revolution, the two were taken to a prison camp that produced tea in Lushan County, Sichuan.