in 1945. Chang moved to America in August 1957 via a cargo ship that docked in Portland, Oregon. Two years later, he received a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1959. That year, the University of Missouri hosted the Press Congress of the World for three days, beginning on March 2, in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the School of Journalism. Among forty delegates from thirty-five countries was Milton J. T. Shieh. Chang wrote an article for the Columbia Missourian based on his interview with his mentor. In 1961, he earned a master's degree in library science from Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he met his future wife of fifty-two years, Elaine Grace Pardue, whom he married on September 15, 1962. The couple raised their two sons on university campuses where they happened to live and work. Chang obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in East Asian History in January 1967, from University of Wisconsin at Madison. His minor fields included Indian Studies and Art History. He used rare documents from the Kuomintang Archives in Taipei, reports of witnesses and correspondents as well as U.S. State Department and the British Foreign Office documents to write his doctoral thesis on the Kuomintang's Foreign Policy, 1925–1928. The range of topics covered the Chinese war lords, Peking government, Nationalist government, Russian advisors, and British policies. Chang conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University East Asian Research Center and Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History in 1969 and 1970. Among his mentors at Harvard were prominent academicians John K. Fairbank and Henry Kissinger, who was then director of the Harvard International Seminar. At Harvard, Chang met two top Soviet Sinologists, Mikhail I. Sladkovsky, the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and Boris N. Zanegin, a Chinese-speaking senior research member of its Institute of the United States and Canada. Work Chang co-wrote and co-edited five books. Together with Leonard H.D. Gordon of Purdue University he produced a comprehensive study of China's enigmatic revolutionary, Sun Yat-sen, who helped lead the Chinese Revolution of 1911, known as the Xinhai Revolution. The study, entitled All Under Heaven: Sun Yat-sen and His Revolutionary Thought, was published by the Stanford University's Hoover Institution Press in 1991. The title came from the Chinese Taoist teaching: "When the Great Way prevails, all under heaven