She was an editor for the Wen Hwa (文华) or Culture Arts Review pictorial in the 1930s and was a rarity for promoting female painters in that era.

[1] She herself was a painter, from Guangdong, who gained some recognition in 1926, when her self-portrait was published on the front page of the Young Companion, issue 5, a prominent news and cultural pictorial, based in Shanghai and read internationally.

[2][1] She was the author of the 1934 book 东北巨变血泪大画史 作者 (The picture history of the great changes of the Northeast and the tears), about the war resisting the Japanese.

[2] Dingming would become well known for his military art, in particular the mural paintings Huizhou Campaign, (about a battle in 1925, part of the founding of the Republic of China (1912–1949)) which resides in the Taipei Museum of History in Taiwan.

[1] Among her non-military named-paintings are "Lunch" and "Red Snow White", which the Soka Art Center said "pay attention to the meaning of brushwork texture.