Aidan Fairhall was a public school teacher in England. He moved to China nine years ago. Now, he says he feels reverse culture shock when back home in England. After four years teaching in public ...

Tatiana Smith spent five years teaching English as a second language in China. She lived in Beijing mostly, which was much bigger and busier than her hometown in Illinois. Smith said the cost of ...

Diane Thayer is shown with a group of students at Xi’an Jiaotong University while she works as a teacher as part of the Brigham Young University China Teachers Program. Thayer participated in the ...

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In 2014 I and roughly 150 others arrived to work for The Center for Teaching and Learning in China (CTLC), a company that since 1996 had brought a new cohort of teachers each year, mostly from the ...

Mary Whitsell, from the United States, retired as a tutor with the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) in 2021. Now, she volunteers as an English teacher at the library of Yongcheng Community ...