Chris Lonsdale is a psychologist, linguist and educator. His adopted Chinese name, Dragon Tiger, is 龙飞虎 (Traditional Chinese: 龍飛虎; pinyin: lóng fēi hǔ). Lonsdale created the Kung fu English learning system and is also the author of . Lonsdale graduated from the University of Canterbury in 1980 with first-class honors. He was accepted to Harvard University to do a PhD in hypnosis, however he ultimately decided to explore China as it began opening to the world. After graduation, he moved to China. While in Sichuan he translated the book 少林寺民间故事 (Tales of the Shaolin Monastery).