She was not in Japan for long and returned to Shanghai in 1931. During this time, she served as the editor of "Women's Light", a weekly newspaper, and joined the Shanghai Writers Association of National Salvation to Resist Japan. Her writings at this time were strongly supportive of the Chinese troops fighting against the Japanese during the Shanghai Incident of 1932, and she tried to rally other writers in Shanghai towards this cause. She traveled around writing, teaching, and publishing in Fujian and Hunan, until she returned to Japan in 1935. This time, when she went to Japan she was arrested and imprisoned for three weeks because she refused to welcome Puyi and acknowledge the Japanese-controlled state of Manchukuo in Northeastern China. After she was released, she returned to China and completed her second book in 1936, entitled "A Woman Soldier's Own Story ("). She would publish an account of her experiences as a prisoner in 1940, in a book entitled "Inside a Japanese Prison" (")."