ShaoLan Hsueh

ShaoLan Hsueh (Chinese: 薛曉嵐; pinyin: Xuē Xiǎolán) is an entrepreneur and she developed a new method to teach Chinese characters.

ShaoLan Hsueh was born in 1971 and raised in Taiwan by a ceramicist father, Hsueh RuiFang, and a calligrapher mother, Lin FangZi. She has two children, MuLan and MuAn.

She received a Master of Business Administration from National Chengchi University in the 1990s, before moving to the United Kingdom where she obtained a MPhil from Newnham College, University of Cambridge.

Her method to teach Chinese is a visual-based learning system called Chineasy.

Chineasy

After a TED talk in 2013 ("Learn to read Chinese … with ease! ") and crowdfunding though Kickstarter, she published the book Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese in March 2014, with the graphic artist Noma Bar.

ShaoLan Hsueh had the idea while trying to teach Chinese to her two children; she uses a simplifying system based on key "building blocks" which can be combined to create more complex characters and sentences. 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".