An American Tackles Domestic Violence In China
An excerpt from journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher’s upcoming book Leftover...
Crazy English
Sinica: The Evan Osnos Exit Interview
On the Sinica podcast, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn talk to The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos as he prepares to leave Beijing after eight years. Osnos describes his forthcoming book, due in Spring 2014, on “the power of...
In Crazy English Divorce, 3 Victories, 1 Defeat
Kim Lee, the American wife of Crazy English founder Li Yang, was awarded a 12 million yuan divorce settlement by a Beijing court on Sunday. Li must pay an additional 100,000 yuan per year for each of their three daughters until...
Crazy English
In the New Yorker, Evan Osnos writes a lengthy profile of Li Yang and his Crazy English phenomenon: To his fans, Li is less a language teacher than a testament to the promise of self-transformation. In the two decades since he...
Is Crazy English Here to Stay?
Shanghaiist has collected reports and videos of Li Yang teaching his Crazy English. If you watch the video by muting the sound, you may think you’re watching a religious gathering with fervent worshipers waving their arms in spiritual communion. If you carefully listen to one class Li taught, you’ll sense something in his speech”nationalism. Li […]
Has Crazy English Gone Crazy? – Bob Chen
From The Global Voices Online: Crazy English is a private education agency in which the founder Li Yang advocates a new method to study English; namely, to shout out antiquated English phrases and seize every chance to approach an English speaker for a conversation, all for sweeping the shyness away. Learners should scream deafening English […]
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