Shengliver Studio is a blog maintained by Shengliver. He is a blogger based in Hubei, China. On his agenda are issues of Chinese education and Chinese teenagers, and those of teaching and learning English in the Chinese context. The blog, written in English, is updated every Sunday. Shengliver teaches the English language in high school.

Shengliver Studio was born on the MSN spaces in 2005. Titled Shengliver’s Garden when it debuted, it kept growing there until October 2010, in which year the Microsoft Network decided to scrap their blogging service. Users of the MSN spaces were offered an option to transfer their articles to a world-leading blogging site wordpress.com. As with most MSN spaces, Shengliver Studio has been up and running on wordpress.com since October 2010. Its permalink is https://shengliver.com.

The name of the blog was changed from Shengliver’s Garden to Shengliver Studio in the summer of 2019, considering new directions Shengliver has taken in his personal development and in his digital skills. The blogger has made some breakthroughs in his pursuits—language learning and DTP. Writing and sharing English in text still figures high on his list of priorities, but Shengliver has gone beyond that. There are now multimedia creations under his belt—images, audio and video productions, and more.

The contents of Shengliver Studio are open and free. Readers are welcome to read or quote any entry, and comment on it. Exploiting the contents for commercial purposes, however, is prohibited. Please give credit to Shengliver Studio if you link to or quote any part of it.

The ideas are Shengliver’s. They have nothing to do with his family, his colleagues, or any institution he is affiliated with. Some images adopted for the blog are collected on the web via search engines. If you believe that your rights are infringed, please leave a message on the site, or write to shengliver@hotmail.com. Action shall be taken in due course.

A little bit of patience, and Shengliver Studio will not let you down. Hopefully you can catch a glimpse of contemporary Chinese society through the entries of the blog. Shengliver’s perspectives may help balance your picture of China.

The following section is obsolete. It is about such an important leg of Shengliver’s language learning journey towards his goal, however, that it is preserved.

Besides running this blog, Shengliver is also a volunteer speaker of English on the Web. Time permitting, he is active around 11 hours GMT / 19 hours Beijing time at three English speaking places on Sina Show: English Corner, Primary Oral English, and English Debating Room.

To access Sina Show chat rooms, a user will have to download the application Sina Show and set it up on his device. All its functionality, registration included, is provided gratis. Its communities are well moderated, free of porn and other undesirable stuff. A clean virtual environment like Sina Show is a rarity globally.

If you are in China and want to practise your English-speaking skills, the English-speaking communities on Sina Show are a nice place to be. If you are outside China and interested in the present-day way of life in China, the Chinese language chat rooms will give you a peep at it. Of course, if you are learning Chinese, then you will find loads of partners to talk with in most of its groups and sub groups. Welcome to join in on Sina Show.