Chung Su-Lee

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mindyourlanguage/images/6/69/China_Flag.png/revision/latest?cb=20210119020514 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mindyourlanguage/images/6/69/China_Flag.png/revision/latest?cb=20210119020514 https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mindyourlanguage/images/6/69/China_Flag.png/revision/latest?cb=20210119020514  Chung Su-Lee is a student in Jeremy Brown's EFL class. She is played by Pik-Sen Lim.

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Su-Lee is a Chinese communist and atheist who works as a secretary at the Embassy of China in London. She always carries around a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book and has a habit of switching her l and r sounds. She recites lengthy quotes from Chairman Mao and criticises Western civilisation almost every time she speaks in class, though Mr. Brown often dismisses her comments as mere opinions. She is initially at odds with Taro due to the political differences between their countries, but she becomes his friend after they make a truce in "Take Your Partners".

Su-Lee is a practitioner of kung fu, as revealed when she gets ready to fight Taro. Curiously, she sometimes walks backwards when leaving or returning to her seat in the classroom, as seen after she hands over her mock exam to Miss Courtney and when she demonstrates what she plans to do at the school concert.

Su-Lee is the only character in the series whose surname is placed before her first name.

Su-Lee doesn't appear in "Brief Re-Encounter" or "The School Fete", and no explanation is given for either absence.

Little Red Book
Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung or Chairman Mao) was the founder of the People's Republic of China and the chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1949 until his death in 1976. In the 1960s and 1970s, statements from his speeches and writings were published as Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which became known internationally as the Little Red Book.