During the War of Liberation, she publicly criticized the Communist government in a series of essays and was eventually jailed for two years in 1955.
[3] Due to the bold subject matter of her work and her alleged connections to hanjian (those who were viewed as race traitors), Su Qing's career was troubled near the end of her life, and she was widely attacked and insulted by anti-hanjian groups.
Most of her works were published in magazines including: The Wind of the Universe (宇宙風), Yi Jing (逸經), Ancient and Modern (古今), The Talk about the Weather (風雨談), and Heaven and Earth (天地).
Owing to the authentic descriptions of sexual psychology, she was described as a bold female writer and received both praise and blame.
During the years at Shaoxing Opera Group, she compiled these plays: Hate Remains in the Land, Qu Yuan, Baoyu and Daiyu and The Biography of Li Wa.