Yang Hui-Shan and Chang Yi made a promise: the history of Chinese glass art had been truncated, but after Liuli Gongfang, it would flourish again.

After years of researching and carefully developing a unique Chinese glass art style, Liuli Gongfang's achievements were being noticed worldwide. The response to their work on the part of CIRVA, the French Center of Glass Arts, illustrated just how far they had come. In 1997, the director of the French center for glass arts CIRVA, Francoise Guichon, brought a senior artist to Taiwan and asked the French trade office in Taiwan to help them set up an interview with Liuli Gongfang's Yang Hui-Shan and Chang Yi. For the glass workshop that had earlier studied the techniques of the French, this interview had great significance. After the Taiwan interview, Francoise Guichon invited Ms. Yang to come to France to teach the lost-wax cast method, in hopes that her skill and experience could help advance CIRVA's own development.

By 1998, Liuli Gongfang had become a mature pate-de-verre production studio and now faced a new challenge. Ms. Yang had to return to ground zero. The plan was to create more than ten large art pieces one meter in diameter and weighing several hundred kilograms. Using the capabilities of only a private glass studio, they would try to take glass art into a new realm of size. The style of these pieces of glass art had never been done in the history of Chinese glass craft, and rarely seen internationally. In this ever more utilitarian society, Liuli Gongfang was almost invisible. The message it desired to send forth was to continue to pursue new skills and to transcend past successes. It only had to put its ideals into practice in order to "preserve some little part of Chinese history."

Liuli Gongfang's goal is to create a style of a people, and start an even more aggressive study and understanding of Chinese culture. Through glass, Liuli Gongfang hopes to create a new modern language and bring Chinese culture onto the international stage. Three thousand years of Chinese glass art history ¡V Liuli Gongfang's mission is to keep it alive.


  
Persistence
Submerged Dragon Medication Vase

United in Harmony