Teaching in China Since 2009
I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a great posting almost immediately. The location was Suzhou, one of China’s nicer cities and definitely more international than anywhere in Jiangxi. KK and I had considered Jiangsu province before after a pleasant conference trip to Nanjing and having seen a high-paying (to us) position advertised in Suzhou […]
Competition among Chinese nationals for good jobs in China is so fierce that many universities require a PhD to be a classroom teacher, while foreign teachers can get by with a master’s degree and sometimes even less depending on location. As such, KK could not come to teach at my school in Nanchang, but I […]
Despite not originally having the particular date in mind, our wedding ceremony took place on January 1, 2015. My parents and sister came to Yichun, along with some of my friends and coworkers who were already in China. That gave us about a dozen people on the groom’s side, while the remainder of the 200 […]
It was January 2013 when KK and I crossed paths again. She sat at my table during Michael and Justine’s wedding, and we got to talking. Specifically, talking about my super-nerdy translation of a modern Chinese card game based on the classic historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Perhaps I’ll write more about the […]
I’ll call the first half of my five years in Nanchang pre-KK, despite the fact that I actually met her during my first semester there. We met briefly as friends of friends, but she soon left campus, to return in a later chapter. Any given year, there were twenty-something foreign teachers at my university, all […]
My week in Shanghai may be worth its own post someday, but it’s not terribly relevant to my teaching story, so… onwards! CIEE placed me in a private K-12 school in Hefei, the capital of one of China’s poorer provinces, before I knew that many private schools in China are where rich parents send their […]
Hello, everyone! For those of you curious about my life in China, here’s a short summary of the last decade, each section of which I will expand in future posts: I’m originally from Minnesota, just south of St. Paul, and it was in Duluth that I got my bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry. After discovering that […]
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