Following the start of the May Fourth Movement, she was elected president of the Peking Federation of Women's Studies.

In 1928 she was appointed to the first Legislative Yuan, one of three women alongside Soong Mei-ling and Zheng Yuxiu.

[4] During the Second Sino-Japanese War she was appointed to the National Political Assembly [zh] in 1938 and headed the Girls Department in the Kuomintang Youth Corps from 1940 to 1941.

[1] After the war she was a delegate to the 1946 Constituent National Assembly that drew up the constitution of the Republic of China.

She remained in China following the Civil War and was elected to Jiangsu Province Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 1955.