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Originally from Hong Kong, Ruby Yang has explored a range of Chinese themes in such documentary films as the 1997 production Citizen Hong Kong, which she directed, and the 2000 production China 21. Both documentaries were shown on PBS stations as part of Asian Pacific Heritage Month. Citizen Hong Kong was also aired in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
She has edited numerous documentaries and feature films. They include Spencer Nakasako's A.K.A. Don Bonus, which aired on P.O.V. and won a national Emmy and the award-winning All Power to the People! The Black Panther Party and Beyond. She was both editor and associate producer for Joan Chen's debut feature Xiu Xiu, the Sent Down Girl, which premiered at the Berlin Festival in 1998 and went on to win seven Golden Horses, Taiwan's equivalent of the Academy Award. She also edited Chen's first Hollywood feature, Autumn in New York, starring Richard Gere and Winona Ryder. In 2000, she directed and edited Silicon Valley, aired on mainland Chinese TV for an audience estimated at over 10 million.
She recently served as Series Editor for Bill Moyers' Becoming American: The Chinese Experience (PBS, March 2003.) She worked closely with Moyers for over a year supervising the editing of all programs in the series.
Yang has received grants for her work from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Creative Work Fund, the Independent Television Service, National Asian American Telecommunications Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Soros Documentary Fund and most recently the 2004 Kaiser Media Fellowship for her project on AIDS in China.