Zee Yuh-tsung

After her training, Zee worked as a teacher in Nanjing and Beijing. In this area of activity, she headed the Chinese Child Relief Committee based in Shanghai.^[6] In 1924 she married the orthopedist Dr. Way-sung New.^{[citation needed]} After her marriage, she continued to do professional and voluntary work. She served as chair of the school trustees of Shanghai Methodist School and Ginling College, was active in charitable work, and led training programs for nurses at her husband's clinic. During this time, she also completed an M.A. degree from Teachers College at Columbia University. In 1928 their son Peter was born. After her husband's death in 1937, she devoted herself intensively to humanitarian work with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in war-torn Shanghai until 1939. From 1939 to 1941 she taught English again at St. Stephen's College in Hong Kong.^[5] In 1945, she took part in the preparations of the Chinese delegation for the San Francisco conference, which included her friend Wu Yi Fang. In 1947, she was a founding member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which worked on the formulation of the International Bill of Human Rights.^[4] From 1949 to 1955 she worked as a lecturer at various institutions in the United States. In 1955 she became associate dean at Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. She held this office until 1959. She then focused on work at her church and for the Ginling Alumni Group. In 1961 she became a citizen of the United States. She died in 1981.^[4]

• Rebecca Adami: Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Routledge. 2018, ISBN 978-0-429-79552-7
• Devaki Jain:Women, Development, and the UN. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-253-21819-3