By Janae, living in China Teaching English at a Chinese University Anna, my California/Oxford/China friend lives in the north of China near a city called Zhengzhou. She visited me last fall, and I returned the visit a few weeks ago. Anna met me in at the train station in Zhengzhou and we drove two …
By Kiran Bhat, Teacher in Shanghai I moved to China quite randomly. Due to family pressure to do something that earned more, I had decided to quit my job teaching online, but I still wanted to pursue a life lived globally. Shanghai is considered to be one of the rising cities of the world, …
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Nick, English Teacher in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province Nanchang, a tier 3 city in China Excited that you got a job offer in China but then you find out it’s going to be some city called Zhengzhou or Yantai? Disappointed that your international job transfer is to Nanchang instead of Shanghai? Admittedly, in the 3rd tier …
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Photo: Zhejiang Normal University is in Jinhua, a small city in China Teaching in China can be a money saver for foreign teachers. But have you thought about teaching in a small city could save you more than that in a tier 1 city like Beijing and Shanghai? Why is that so? Here is …
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By Richelle, former English teacher in China Ningbo University in Zhejiang Province, China It’s the question that all prospective teachers are wondering: how much can I really save teaching abroad? A high salary is great, but if you’re living in an expensive country, your cash isn’t going to stretch as far as it might …
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By Callum Clark, former English teacher With the job situation in the UK looking bleak Callum Clark took a teaching job in China. He writes about his experience of working in Shijiazhuang: It’s 7pm and I am sitting in a service station eating my evening meal. Only this is no Little Chef, and eating …
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By Richelle, former English teacher in China For me, the decision on which city in China to move to was pretty arbitrary- Shenzhen or Ningbo or Shanghai? Most city names were completely foreign to me, and after a round of research, I realized that I was open to going, well, just about anywhere in China. …
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