Chinese food pantry-BAMBOO SHOOTS
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Chinese food pantry-BAMBOO SHOOTS

Chinese food pantry-BAMBOO SHOOTS These pale yellow spears are the young beginnings of bamboo trees. In the past, fresh bamboo shoots were unavailable outside of Asia. Nowadays they are sold in many Chinese groceries, though they are often tough and fibrous and must be boiled for...
Where to live in China
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Where to live in China

THE IMPORTANCE OF LOCATION NOW THAT YOU KNOW more about what teaching English in China is like and you’re interested in learning what else living in the middle kingdom has to offer, you need to find a job. One of the most important factors that go...
Finding a job in China
BusinessCareer

Finding a job in China

THE LINKEDIN METHOD FOR FINDING A JOB “IF YOU WANT THE job, it’s yours,” my future boss told me over the phone. After four years of applying to non-teaching jobs in the United States and four years after my college graduation, I had my first full...
Dealing with culture shock in China
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Dealing with culture shock in China

Dealing with culture shock in China MAKE A NICE HOME IF YOU ARE LIKE most foreigners in China, you will inevitably experience culture shock and sometimes homesickness. Maybe a certain person will annoy you, maybe you will grow weary of disorganization of some sort, or maybe...
WORKING AT A COMPANY IN CHINA
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WORKING AT A COMPANY IN CHINA

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” —CONFUCIUS THE LIFE OF A CULTURAL LIAISON I BIKED IN TO work on a beautiful spring day in 2012 after sipping my overpriced $6 small xiangcao natie (vanilla latte)...
Driving experience in China
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Driving experience in China

GETTING A CHINESE DRIVER’S LICENSE “WOMEN JINTIAN HAO XIANG you yi ge waiguoren kaoshi.” It looks like we have a foreigner taking the test today. The DMV test administrator was speaking to a crowd of Chinese people and me, who were lined up at the Jiaxing...
Useful guidance doing business in China
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Useful guidance doing business in China

“EVERY PERSON I KNEW who went off to China thinking they’d strike it rich came home with a chopstick up his ass.” My friend said this to me when I told him of my own plans to start a business in China. He was the most...
Get your Chinese Green Card Now!
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Get your Chinese Green Card Now!

Get your Chinese Green Card Now! Shanghai has granted around 500 permanent resident cards to foreigners in the two months following the country’s April adoption of a streamlined application procedure. That’s nearly 30 percent of the country’s total, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau said on Tuesday....