"The Chain", a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in Taiwan, was shown at Venice Biennale (2001) and the São Paulo Art Biennial (2002).
The nearly life-sized photographs of pairs of patients chained together resonate with Chang's look at the less visible bonds of marriage.
For 21 years, Chang has photographed and videoed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York's Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian.
Still a work in progress, China Town was hung at the National Museum of Singapore in 2008[2] as part of a mid-career survey and at Venice Biennale (2011) as well as at International Center of Photography, New York (2012).
Chang's investigation of the ties that bind one person to another draws on his own divided immigrant experience in the United States.