Dorothy Yung Gives Voice to Traditional Chinese Feminism: The traditional Chinese culture has predominantly been written and driven through a male voice. For hundreds of years, the role of women has been that of submissive support. A cheerleader for her husband, caretaker for her children, given the most credit, when raising strong male sons and…

Some might say that Dorothy Yung’s (Rong) family quite literally helped build modern-day China. Her family origins did not begin in Fine Art, but rather in the farmland of the Wuxi region, 70 miles north of Shanghai. In the early 1900s the Rong’s established a machine-driven flour mill in Wuxi. Shortages created by the First…