He won the Golden Horse Award for Best Director and Asia Pacific Film Festival because of 1985 film Kuei-Mei, a Woman (我這樣過了一生)[1][2][need quotation to verify]. He had an extramarital affair with Loretta Yang(楊惠姍), the leading actress in many of Chang's movies. After the affair was exposed, Chang Yi and Loretta Yang left Taiwan film industry and became the founders of contemporary glass studio Liuli Gongfang (琉璃工房).[3][4][need quotation to verify] [5]