Her grandfather, Chang Hong-Chun (章鴻春), was the principal of the Army Cavalry School of the Republic of China.
Her father, Colonel Chang Pei-Lin (章沛霖), was a Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer Academy graduate.
He served as the military attaché of the Embassy of the Republic of China in Japan and later became an entrepreneur after moving to the United States.
After Li Han-hsiang completed The Love Eterne in 1963, he had a conflict with the Shaw Brothers Pictures International Limited.
[5] Soon after, she was listed as one of the “Five Phoenixes of Grand” (Chinese: 國聯五鳳; pinyin: Quo Lian Wu Feng) along with Jiang Qing (江青), Wang Ling (汪玲), Niu Fangyu (鈕方雨), and Li Denghui (李登惠).
The film was ranked sixth in Taiwan's box office that year (earning 3.08 million NTD) and made Chen and Tang the most beloved on-screen couple of the early 1970s.
[8] Chen Chen was paired with a new actor Charlie Chin in Li Hsing's next adaptation of Qiong Yao's novel The Heart Has A Thousand Knots (心有千千結) in the same year (1973), which made Charlie Chin a household name as one of the leading stars in Literary Romantic films.
On June 1, 1976, Chen signed divorce papers with Tse and began dating Steven Liu.