Chang Ch'ung-ho (Zhang Chonghe) was born in
Shanghai in 1914, with her
ancestral home in
Hefei,
Anhui. Her great-grandfather, Zhang Shusheng (), was a high-ranking military officer in the
Huai Army. She had six brothers and three sisters. They had a daughter, Emma Fränkel () and a son, Ian Frankel. Ch'ung-ho taught at
Yale University,
Harvard University and 20 other universities, teaching traditional
Chinese culture. After the
Cultural Revolution, Chang visited
Suzhou in 1979. In 1986, Chang Ch'ung-ho and her sister Chang Yuen-ho attended a theatrical performance which was commemorated the 370 anniversary of the death of
Tang Xianzu in
Beijing. In the Autumn of 2004, Chang Ch'ung-ho held an exhibition of paintings in Beijing. On June 17, 2015, Chang Ch'ung-ho died in
New Haven, Connecticut, aged 101. ==Selected works==