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China Teaching Behind the Great Firewall & Other Inadvisable Things in a Country Shaped Like a Chicken
China Teaching Behind the Great Firewall & Other Inadvisable Things in a Country Shaped Like a Chicken
China Teaching Behind the Great Firewall & Other Inadvisable Things in a Country Shaped Like a Chicken
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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.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBarton Jones
Release dateJun 1, 2015
ISBN9781310914263
China Teaching Behind the Great Firewall & Other Inadvisable Things in a Country Shaped Like a Chicken
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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

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