Noted Taiwanese film director and key figure in the New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema in the 1980s, Chang Yi first captured the public's attention at nineteen as a short story writer. Critics have compared his unique voice to that of Eileen Chang and Kenneth Hsien-yung Bai. This Love of Mine was selected by Variety Magazine as one of the top 10 films in the 100 year history of Taiwanese cinema.

In 1987, he and Yang left the film industry to pursue contemporary liuli art and together they founded Asia's first liuli art studio. The New York Times has dubbed Chang “Father of the Asia Studio Glass Movement”.

Chang Yi strongly believes that art is born from the rich soil of culture. Each design provides narration for the people, their lives and their culture and is forged organically, without restraint or constraint. He encourages the free-flow of molten liuli endowing his work with boundless possibilities and looks to literary and Asian Zen philosophies as his creative guides.