After the end of World War II, Sun returned to China and became active in acting and directing in Chinese theater.

After studying abroad in the Soviet Union, Sun Bingwen returned to China in 1924 and joined the faculty of Whampoa Academy.

After the relationship between the KMT and CCP deteriorated Sun Bingwen was arrested on 16 April 1927 and executed four days later, during the White Terror.

Sun Yang was eventually released, became Zhu De's personal assistant, and became the president of Renmin University after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

[8] Soon after arriving in Yan'an, Jiang began a romantic affair with Xu Yixin, a senior teacher at Lu Xun College, and fell in love with him.

[7] In 1937 Lin Biao was injured in an incident with the army of Yan Xishan, flew to Moscow for medical attention, and remained there until 1942.

[6] Sun completed her studies and returned to China in September 1946, and participated in the land reform movement in CCP-controlled Shanxi.

In 1949, Sun was the head of the interpreting team that accompanied Mao Zedong on his state visit to the Soviet Union.

[9] Sun enthusiastically accepted, and began work on establishing the first professional theater to stage shows in colloquial Mandarin in the PRC.

[11]: 41 Following the production of How Steel is Made, Sun Weishi began a romantic affair with Jin Shan, who had played the male lead, Pavel.

The affair caused a controversy within CCP circles when it became public,[9] since Jin was still married to actress Zhang Ruifang at the time.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War Jin toured areas of China not controlled by the Japanese, staging patriotic anti-Japanese plays.

Sun's wedding gift from Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao was a copy of the Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China.

[3] Shortly after his marriage to Sun, Jin was sent to the camp of Kim Il Sung to stage a play for CCP soldiers serving in the Korean War.

When Kim discovered the affair he had the secretary shot, and turned Jin over to the commander of the Chinese forces, Peng Dehuai.

While working with the Experimental Theater, Sun attempted to create a new style of socialist art by combining Stanislavsky's system with dramatic techniques found in traditional Chinese opera.

In June 1956 Sun produced the play Joys and Sorrows, a drama about a romantic triangle between a CCP official and two women.

In 1957 Sun also produced a comedy, Portrait of One Hundred Clowns, in order to defend herself against her political critics by shallowly promoting the Anti-Rightist Movement.

[10] In 1961 Sun produced a play based on the American novel Uncle Tom's Cabin,[14] The Hatred of Black Slaves.

In the Hatred of Black Slaves Sun experimented with techniques found in Chinese opera (the same which had inspired Brecht's concept of "alienation effects") in an effort to break down the "fourth wall".

The Hatred of Black Slaves was notable for its attempts to expand the play's dramatic action beyond the confines of the stage.

The Rising Sun (1965) was the first time in the history of Chinese drama that experts and the public collaborated to create art.

She pursued the significance of women and female rights in the context of turbulent social development, a vital element of her creation.

The Rising Sun has the characteristics of political and gender representation, making the work not only reflect the distinctive features of her time but also enriching the public image of women.

After finishing school, Sun Xiaolan moved to Qixia, Nanjing, and worked as a nurse at a local Petroleum Pipeline Bureau hospital.

[19] On 9 June 1977, a statue of Sun Weishi was placed in memory of her at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing by the Art Bureau of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China.

On 26 December 2012, the National Theatre Company of China held a press conference regarding her biography, Innocent Heart, to memorize Sun Weishi and her 91st birthday.

In the press conference the National Theatre Company stated that it considered Sun one of the three greatest directors in the history of People's Republic of China.