China Teaching Behind the Great Firewall & Other Inadvisable Things in a Country Shaped Like a Chicken
By Barton Jones
()
About this ebook
An irreverent and often satirical armchair adventure about teaching English in mainland China. A woefully overeducated former lawyer and part-time university music lecturer and teacher goes to China for three separate academic years. There he experiences all the vagaries of academic life with Chinese characteristics and the Sino underhandedness and deceit of the local, educational officialdom, while still keeping his students marching steadily toward matriculation and competency in speaking, and sometimes writing, English. He struggles to deal with Chinglish, 56 or more spoken dialects of Chinese, Mandarin, happy students, grumpy students, grumpier co-educators, ex-pats, construction, destruction and days when the air is mostly chewable. He learns that commuting by bike, foot or transit is a ballistic ballet and contact sport.
Barton Jones
Barton Jones lives in Walla Walla, Washington with his favorite guitar, a viola, four violins and two cellos. He is currently working on a book of fiction, which will have nothing to do with China. The heroic garb, dog, accoutrements and various impedimenta, which appear in his picture, have very little, almost nothing to do with his time in China.Through very little fault of his own he was mostly educated in Oregon and Washington. He also spent interesting years in Austria, Switzerland and Japan, which did virtually nothing to advance him academically, professionally or financially. In addition to writing, he teaches classical guitar, violin, viola and cello. Evenings he frequently joins his friends on either viola and cello to play chamber music or to play with community orchestras. While the results are quite satisfying to the group, others -- less charitable others -- have been heard to mutter things about Beethoven, Mozart, et al being happily dead.Readers can contact him at bartonljones@gmail.com
Related to China Teaching Behind the Great Firewall & Other Inadvisable Things in a Country Shaped Like a Chicken
Related ebooks
Tenuous State: A Tale of Survival in the West, A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Common Threads Trilogy: Common Threads Iii Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHeiress Strangled in Molten Chocolate at Nazi Sex Orgy!: A Memoir Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Peter Lorre Companion: A Bildungsroman Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Body: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Other Side of Healing Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInfertility, Infidelity, and Insanity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTeacher Man: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As I Die Slowly Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Think I Can, I Thought I Could, I Did … I Will Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Came, Saw and Lived: An Autobiography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeriod: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInnamorata: (in love) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Know It to Be True Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPoetic Shades of Life 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last African Amerik.K.K.An Slave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBreaking Barriers: Working and Loving While Blind Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Short Life Well Lived: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Do You... Be You... Be Flawsome: A Journey of Music, Mental Health & Motherhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLaughter on My Path: An Educator's Funny and Compelling Encounters with People, Problems, and Pets Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Beginner's Guide To Taoism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLife... Lust...Love: The Shattering of Hearts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Seven Year Laowai Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHave Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lessons out of School: Insights Against a Backdrop of the Conflicts of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Ashes to Angel’S Dust:: A Journey Through Womanhood Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSailing Through Life: My Life with God, Spirituality, and Sexuality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiving Twice: How Chautauqua Can Give You Another Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGod's Hand at Work: 7 True Stories from Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Asia Travel For You
Easy Thai: Learn to Speak Thai Quickly (Includes Downloadable Audio) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tagalog for Beginners: An Introduction to Filipino, the National Language of the Philippines (Online Audio included) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLonely Planet Thailand Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Learn Vietnamese: Start Speaking Today. Absolute Beginner to Conversational Speaker Made Simple and Easy! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKorean for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Korean (Includes Free Online Audio) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mandarin Chinese for Beginners: Mastering Conversational Chinese (Fully Romanized and Free Online Audio) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lonely Planet Japan Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fodor's Essential Japan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory of Japan: Revised Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51000 Japanese Flash Cards: For Smart Phones and E-Readers Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Basic Korean: Learn to Speak Korean in 19 Easy Lessons (Companion Online Audio and Dictionary) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Korean Made Easy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Japanese for Fun: A Practical Approach to Learning Japanese Quickly (Downloadable Audio Included) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Cool Japan Guide: Fun in the Land of Manga, Lucky Cats and Ramen Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kerala Kitchen, Expanded Edition: Recipes and Recollections from the Syrian Christians of South India Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My Holiday in North Korea: The Funniest/Worst Place on Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Basic Tagalog: (Audio Recordings Included) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Trip of One's Own: Hope, Heartbreak, and Why Traveling Solo Could Change Your Life Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for China Teaching Behind the Great Firewall & Other Inadvisable Things in a Country Shaped Like a Chicken
0 ratings0 reviews