About the Founder

About the Founder - David Su Liqun

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  David Su Liqun is a recognised innovator in the field of Chinese language teaching. As well as writing plays, novels and biographies, David is the creator of the pioneering TDR teaching method, author of Chinese for Everyone and TDR: The Tao of Chinese Grammar and was the lead writer on the BBC TV programme Real Chinese. David spent twenty years as the most senior Mandarin tutor in the Language Department of SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London).

• The most known specialist for Chinese language & culture in the U.K
• Recognised innovator in Chinese grammar and teaching method.
• Over 20 years teaching experience at various levels of Chinese faculty at  SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)..

• Students include FCO, MOD, British Council and financial institutions throughout the U.K.

• Author of Chinese for Everyone (the text book of the diploma course in SOAS) and TDR: The Dao of Chinese Grammar, Zoom In Mandarin 1-4.

• Lead writer of the BBC programme “Real Chinese”.
• Writer of Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Vermilion Ink

David Su's new novel:

Vermilion Ink

by David Su Liqun and Diana Gore

In 1715 a lowly Jesuit brother, Giuseppe Castiglione, arrived in China as a missionary and artist. Once a wild orphan, his life had been transformed by joining the Society of Jesus. In China, he was given the name, Lang Shi Ning, a name that is renowned to this day. The Kang Xi emperor, already elderly and frail, rejected Castiglione's first oil painting as too Western and ordered him to learn the techniques of Chinese painting...

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The Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction