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...past decade, the number of students enrolled in Chinese courses has surpassed that for Japanese courses in a department that now has 20 language instructors—many of whom Feng drew from China through...
Born in Beijing in 1955, Feng grew up during the tumult of China’s Cultural Revolution, in which Mao Zedong’s efforts to renew the nation’s spirit of revolution and purge intellectuals resulted in mass starvation and economic disaster...
...more you had knowledge, the more you [were] counterrevolutionary,” Feng said of the mindset of the time. According to Mao, Feng added, “knowledge from books [was] bullshit. Knowledge from projects [was] real...
After he completed middle school, Feng became a math teacher for middle school students while secretly and illicitly studying advanced Chinese with a former teacher. Feng then enrolled in college after the Cultural Revolution ended, later completing a master’s degree and traveling to the United States to complete a doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania...
...unrelenting demand of the students is in some ways pretty touching,” said Suneel K. Chakravorty ’11, a former HBA student, noting that Feng calls on students in class to repeat even slightly mispronounced words...