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After Chiang negotiated with the Communists, Chang flew back to Nanjing as a demonstration of good faith.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Coble |first=Parks M. |title=The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War |date=2023 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn=978-1-009-29761-5 |location=Cambridge New York, NY |author-link=Parks M. Coble}}</ref>{{Rp|page=53}} Chiang had him placed under house arrest.<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|pages=53-54}}
== Later life
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[[File:Zhang Xueliang's former residence,Wufeng, Hsinchu, Taiwan.jpg|thumb|[[Former Residence of Zhang Xueliang (Hsinchu County)|Former residence of Chang Hsueh-liang]] in [[Wufeng, Hsinchu|Wufeng]], [[Hsinchu County]], [[Taiwan]].]]
Chang was eventually taken to Taiwan, where he remained under arrest until Chiang's 1975 death.<ref name=":02" />{{Rp|page=53}}
Chang studied the [[New Testament]]. In 1964, he formally married Edith Chao, daughter of a senior official, who left her family in her teens to become his companion and later followed him into exile. His first wife, Ms. Yu, said she was so moved by Ms. Chao's devotion that she released her husband from his vows. Chang and his wife, Edith, became devout Christians who also regularly attended Sunday services at [[Shilin Official Residence|the Methodist chapel]] in [[Shilin District|Shilin]], a Taipei suburb, with Chiang Kai-shek's family. On March 26, 1988, two months after the death of Chiang Kai-shek's son [[Chiang Ching-kuo]], his freedom was officially restored.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Brill| isbn = 978-90-04-22154-3| last = Jacobs| first = J. Bruce| author-link= J. Bruce Jacobs| title = Democratizing Taiwan| location = Leiden ; Boston| date = 2012}}</ref>
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