[3] She was the founder of the Army School of Nursing at the Emergency Medical Service Training School in Guiyang, a strong proponent of military nursing during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War, and the first woman in the Republic of China to attain the rank of major general (少將, shaojing).

[4] In 1944, she earned a master's degree in public health from MIT when she submitted her thesis on the development of an army nursing school in China.

[7] In September 1937, she fled Dingxian with other members of the Mass Education Movement (MEM), including nurses in her training, as the city came under attack from Japanese forces.

The group relocated to Changsha, where MEM services, including nursing, pivoted to national defense work.

[2][3][4][6][8] The EMSTS provided intensive medical training for health students entering the MRC and army in a variety of roles in emergency care, including surgeons, nurses, ambulance workers, and hospital orderlies.

[8] They suggested establishing regular army posts and professional titles for nurses who graduated from the school.

[9] The Army Nursing School received funding from the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs of the United States.

The previous female general was in military encrypt business whose team broke the Pearl Harbor invasion code.

It is worth noting another classmate Ka Shu Hsu (徐蔼诸) was also trained at Columbia University was involved in US fund raising opened several nursing schools in China.

Zhou meiyu xiansheng fangwen ji 周美玉先生訪問記錄 [The Reminiscences of Prof. Chow Mei Yu] (in Chinese).