Yang Hui-Shan was a successful film star and a consecutive Best Actress winner of the Golden Horse Award of Taiwan as well as the Asia Pacific Film Festival Award. But in 1987 she and Chang Yi, a Best Director winner of the Golden Horse Award and the Asia Pacific Film Festival Award, along with seven other associates, left the film industry and embarked on a new life and new undertaking. The medium: glass. With hopes of entering the world of glass art and creating artwork with a modern Chinese style, they founded Liuli Gongfang.


From the start, the group lacked experience in glass making. They expected the total investment needed to establish themselves to be around NT$150,000 (US$40,000). However, after the first six months of operations their needs exceeded this figure one hundred fold. The idea that looked so good on paper was proving impossible to implement. With the global glass industry production model being vastly different from that of Taiwan's, they basically had no example to follow. In Chang Yi's efforts to study and understand the art of glass, he very quickly determined that glass-blowing skills were not at all suited to carrying out the creation of a Chinese style that was fundamental to Liuli Gongfang. What they needed was to develop skills in pate-de-verre production methods.

Candle Stick Decorated with the Charater " Shoo" (Longlife)
H:23 cm W: 17.5 cm