Yang was born in 1911 and was originally from Heze County [zh] in Shandong province. She graduated from China University [zh] and was employed as headteacher of Shandong War Orphan Middle School from 1945 to 1947.[1] She served as president of the Shandong Women's Association from 1945 to 1946 and as chair of the Shandong Women's Movement Committee from 1945 to 1947.[1] She also headed the women's section of the Shandong People's Self-Defence Corps.[2] She married Yang Jialin [zh], a politician, and had two daughters.[1]
Yang was a Kuomintang candidate in Shandong in the 1948 elections for the Legislative Yuan and was elected to parliament.[2] She relocated to Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War, where she became an executive member of the Taiwan Consumer's Association.[1] She died in 1993.
