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English Hustle: Behind the Precarious Online Tutoring Industry in China
English Hustle explores the complexities of this issue through personal stories of teachers and students involved in a global industry with insights from academic experts on Chinese history, politics, and foreign affairs. Join us for a private preview this March 22, co-hosted by The China Project and Pratt Institute.
With over a hundred thousand American teachers and millions of Chinese students, the online English tutoring industry was poised to become the largest sector in the ed tech space. As tensions between the United States and China rose, this multi-billion dollar industry collapsed overnight with new Chinese regulations. What led to this industry’s demise? Was it China’s increasing isolationism? The precarity of a gig economy propped up by opportunistic venture capitalists? A concern for student well being as a need for government regulation?
English Hustle explores the complexities of this issue through personal stories of teachers and students involved in a global industry with insights from academic experts on Chinese history, politics, and foreign affairs. Join us for a private preview this March 22, 6:30-8pm, co-hosted by The China Project and Pratt Institute.
Learn more about the film at englishhustle.org.
Charles Abelmann
Charles Abelmann is the Director and Producer of English Hustle. Charlie has a decades-long background working in education research, policy and practice. He was a senior education specialist at the World Bank where he managed a wide range of education projects in multiple countries including China. He also managed leadership programs at the World Bank. Charlie has over a decade of experience leading public and private independent schools including serving as the Director of the Laboratory Schools at the University of Chicago. He is a graduate of Duke University and holds a master and doctoral degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is currently available as an executive coach and education consultant as he continues to work on film projects related to education themes.
Gina Marchetti
Gina Marchetti serves as Chair of the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her books include Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (California, 1993), From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Temple, 2006), The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Temple, 2012), Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs—The Trilogy (HKUP, 2007), and Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Hawai’i, 2018). Her research and teaching interests encompass critical and cultural theory, world cinema, Asian and Asian American women filmmakers, and depictions of China and the Chinese diaspora on global screens.
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