Li Yang

Li Yang (; born 1969 in Changzhou, Jiangsu) is a Chinese educator and language instructor. He is the creator of Crazy English, an unorthodox method of teaching English. He claimed to have taught English to more than 20 million people in a decade.

Biography As a child, Li Yang was very introverted. From September 1980 to July 1986, he attended the Xinjiang Experimental Middle School. He entered Lanzhou University in 1986 to major in engineering mechanics. It was during his time in that University when he devised the language instruction method for Crazy English. He graduated in 1990 and went on to work for the Northwest Electronic Equipment Institute in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. He continued to practice English using this method, often standing on top of the office building where he worked and shouting English.

In 1992, Li entered the English Station at the Guangdong Republic Broadcasting Station. In 1993, he became an English broadcaster and host in a Guangzhou TV station. Between 1993 and 1994, he was the special invited translator in U.S. Consulate General in Guangzhou. His company, Stone-Clitz, profits from his series of Crazy English books.

His personal motto is "stimulating patriotism, advocating national spirits, conquering English, revitalizing China." He is critical of the Chinese educational system and how it gives children a lack of confidence. However, he also criticized her for discussing private things in public. On October 27, Li and his wife filed for divorce. The case gained national attention and raised discussions over domestic violence and was subject of a feature presentation on the TV program Legal Report. Li said he "wholeheartedly" apologised to his wife and three daughters for "committing domestic violence". He added: "This has caused them serious physical and mental damage". Mr Li's statement came more than a week after his wife, Kim Lee, posted photographs of her bloodied and bruised face on the internet, opening her husband to a barrage of criticism. "You knocked me to the floor. You sat on my back. You choked my neck with both hands and slammed my head into the floor," she wrote. She added that Li had only stopped after one of their three daughters intervened. Afterwards, she said Li had made a planned appearance on Chinese television as she was being treated in hospital. "Seeing that you were having make-up applied for a TV appearance while I was in hospital hurts more than you slamming my head on the floor," she wrote on Weibo. According to a national survey by the All China Women's Federation in 2009, one-third of Chinese homes have seen incidents of domestic abuse, with 85 percent of them directed against women. On July 26, 2014, Li converted to Buddhism at Shaolin Temple in Dengfeng, Henan.