Chang is a literature professor at Yale. Her writing in English is scholarly academic work. In China, however, she is best known for lively magazine articles about Yale, American life, feminism, literature and film. People are interested in modernization, in general, and especially want to learn about the great universities of the world.
Education is the most important thing in our culture.
Parents will sacrifice a great deal to provide an education for their children. Chang was born in Beijing and raised in Taiwan, where she graduated from Tunghai University in 1966 with a major in English literature. She earned her Ph.D. degree in 1978 from Princeton University in classical Chinese literature, with additional studies in Chinese history and comparative literature. She joined the Yale faculty in 1982 and has been here since then. Jules Prown, David Brion Davis, Vladimir Alexandrov and Victor Erlich .