Yang's breakthrough role was in
The Soul of Yuli (1924), where she played a dissolute playgirl who wouldn't settle down after marriage. Yang then played lead roles in
The Poor Children and
Lured into Marriage. In 1928 Yang opened the Naimei Film Company which produced one film in the same year,
An Extraordinary Woman (). She would tour
Nanyang (Chinese communities in modern-day Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) between 1929 and 1931 to promote the film. Yang retired from acting in the mid-1930s. ==References==