Background
ShaoLan Hsueh was born in 1971 and raised in Taiwan by a ceramicist father, Hsueh RuiFang, and a calligrapher mother, Lin FangZi.
薛曉嵐
creator author & Founder of Chineasy
ShaoLan Hsueh was born in 1971 and raised in Taiwan by a ceramicist father, Hsueh RuiFang, and a calligrapher mother, Lin FangZi.
She received a Master of Business Administration from National Chengchi University in the 1990s, before moving to the United Kingdom where she obtained a Master of Philosophy from Newnham College, University of Cambridge.
She has two children, MuLan and MuAn. Her method to teach Chinese is a visual-based learning system called After a TED talk in 2013 ("Learn to read Chinese … with ease! ") and crowdfunding though Kickstarter, she published the book: The New Way to Read Chinese in March 2014, with the graphic artist Noma Bar. She also uses simple illustrations to help learners to recognise the "building blocks" easily.
The books contains about 400 characters based on 64 "building blocks".
Awards & Recognition Editions As of February 2015, is translated in eleven languages: Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish and Swedish. (English) Shaolan Hsueh,: The New Way to Read Chinese, Thames & Hudson Limited, 2014 ().