[3] After Beijing was occupied by the Imperial Japanese Army and Chang and her mother fled to different cities to take refuge.
[2] Finally, they settled in southwest China's Chongqing, where the National Peking School of Fine Arts had relocated.
[2] In 1942, Chang Shuhong became the vice head of the preparatory committee of the newly founded National Dunhuang Art Institute in northwest China's Gansu province, and later served as its first president.
[2] In the spring of 1945, her mother divorced with her father due to she could no longer bear local living conditions.
During the Cultural Revolution, she suffered political persecution due to her background of being born in France and studying in the United States.