She was a founding member of China's Woman's Rights League and later became secretary of the Hunan Communist Women's Committee.

While here she met her future husband and Hunan native He Mengxiong who was studying at the nearby Peking University.

After suspending her studies she became involved with the Work-Study Mutual Aid Corp which was set up by future Chinese Communist Party founders Deng Zhongxia and Li Dazhao to promote Marxist ideas.

[2] In November 1920 she formally joined the newly establish Communist Youth League of China headed by Yu Xiusong and started publishing articles about the roles women play in the family.

[3] A few years later she founded the Women's Right League and traveled across China with her husband He Mengxiong to promote the organization.