Background
Miss Yang was native of Wusih, Kiangsu and born of a family distinguished for scholastic attainments.
Miss Yang was native of Wusih, Kiangsu and born of a family distinguished for scholastic attainments.
She received thorough Chinese education in her youth and took special interest in poetry and painting. She wrote exquisite verses while still young and also was fond of philosophy and literature.
Ling-Fu Yang gained fame as a painter in China, and was awarded medals by both President Yuan Shih-kai and President Hsu Shihchang for her productions. She participated in the Philadelphia Exposition with her productions in 1926 which made her widely known in the United States. She also was invited to partake in the joint Sino-Japanese Art Exposition during the time of the coronation of the reigning Japanese emperor in 1928 at Tokyo, where her work was highly praised and awarded prizes. Between these two exhibitions, she spent two years in reproducing the portraits of the Manchu emperors and empresses at the Palace Museum of Mukden. One of her special feats in art is a complete model of the Summer Palace in Peiping which won her much admiration from many Chinese and foreign artists. She is also author of a volume on poems and paintings and several novels.