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Excellent source of information for anyone thinking about teaching English in China.

I regularly receive e-mails from non-white and non-native speakers inquiring about what the real opportunities are for teaching English in China and decided the time was long overdue to revisit this concern in a far more open, transparent, and revealing way that I suspect will apply to most prospective foreign ...

A feature article from the Foreign Teachers' Guide to Living and Teaching in China, added January 3rd, 2009

Young men sipping tea and having sex from a hand scroll on homosexual themes, paint on silk; China, Qing Dynasty (eighteenth to nineteenth centuries); ...

Written and Submitted by Bill Michaelson
I originally intended this story to be a very detailed and personal account of my life before and after arriving in China. My final draft was over 25 typewritten pages, single-spaced, and I submitted it to Middle Kingdom Life with full permission for them ...

Written and Submitted by Josh Davis
Growing up as a Jew in America, I did experience anti-Semitism from time to time, especially in my late elementary to early high school years. However, everyone was, overall, accepting of the fact that I was Jewish, and although no one knew much about my ...

I regularly receive e-mails from non-white and non-native speakers inquiring about what the real opportunities are for teaching English in China and decided the time was long overdue to revisit this concern in a far more open, transparent, and revealing way that I suspect will apply to most prospective foreign ...

The following article has been written conjointly and is based on a true story of a close acquaintance of mine in China. We first began corresponding some three years ago when I contacted him through an Internet forum and he was very helpful regarding some adjustment problems I was ...

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As the Foreign Teachers' Guide to Living and Teaching English in China continues to expand in length, it has become clear to us that a concise and time-saving tool for gauging one's competitiveness as an English teacher in China, as well as for determining how easy or difficult ...

In July 2008, we introduced a survey for our readers in order to receive feedback about the usefulness of the guide and for soliciting suggestions for improvement. From July 23, 2008 through December 5th, 2008, we received a total of 44 responses from our readers and thought this would ...

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The impetus behind the survey was derived from the rather surprising findings of our last reader poll. An equal percentage of respondents both agreed and disagreed that ...

Middle Kingdom Life recently reported that there was no existence of the so-called “5-year rule” in China. It turns out we were not entirely correct. There is in fact an SAFEA advisory guideline that stipulates (based on a literal translation): "Foreign experts who come to China cannot ...