ITunes in iPad has started appearing in Chinese--how to fix back?

My husband opened his iTunes on his iPad 2 (with iOS8) tonight and it appears in Chinese. It first appeared in Chinese with only the iTunes U logo at the bottom and none of the other choices. He did a hard restart and now iTunes comes up as it should now, but all in Chinese. It has never done this before. We are in Beijing and just using our wifi without VPN on, the iTunes has always come up in English on our devices, although purchasing isn't allowed on some items, like music. With VPN set to the U.S., it has been working fine. Until tonight. He first got an error when calling up iTunes Radio with the VPN set to U.S. It said it was unavailable. He later went in to call up iTunes and it came up in Chinese. Even after restarting the iPad. Any ideas? It's still coming up in Chinese with the VPN working on a U.S. server. My iPad4 is working fine with iOS8 and iTunes comes up as it should in English even with my location as Beijing (my VPN service won't work on my iPad in China, only my laptop). Other than putting it back to factory settings, I'm not sure how to fix it.

I am not fully understanding the problem here.  Are you seeing anything when you open iTunes, yes or no?  Some people say they have a custom media file location but they really mean they have a custom library location and there is a big difference.  You can set cutom media location in iTunes preferences but don't do that unless you are certain that is what you want/need.  If you have lost connection to your library it won't help and it will make more a mess of things.  It may help if you learn a bit on how iTunes works and maybe you can figure out yourself what you need:
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
What's all this about a .photolibrary???  I have never heard of that in connection with iTunes.

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