Yue-Qing Yang

Yue-Qing Yang is a Chinese Canadian filmmaker dedicated to uncovering and telling the stories of Chinese women. Not one to go over familiar ground, Ms. Yang has accomplished, and continues to do, pioneering work. Her recently completed Nu Shu - A Hidden Language of Women in China gives a compelling account of a little known and now nearly extinct system of writing invented and used exclusively by women. She is currently producing and directing Footbinding - The Three Inch Golden Lotus, a landmark film that aims to provide an incisive look into this taboo subject.

A graduate of the University of Alberta in Canada with a Masters Degree in Science , Yue-Qing was formerly a university instructor in China where she made her first documentary, The Chinese Forest Frog. The film was broadcast on China’s Central TV Station and won the “Shennong Honour Award” in 1989. Since 1993, she has concentrated on making independent documentary films from her new base in Vancouver, Canada. (03/00)

Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China
A film by Yue-Qing Yang, 1999, 59 min., Color
In feudal China, women, usually with bound feet, were denied educational opportunities and condemned to social isolation. But in Jian-yong county in ...