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De Mille, Barbara M. – ADE Bulletin, 1982
Recounts an American teacher's experience of teaching English at a university in China and includes advice to others considering a similar teaching experience. (AEA)
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Giffone, Tony – ADE Bulletin, 1999
Describes a university instructor's "exhilarating and exhausting" experiences teaching English in China. Notes that the instructor felt simultaneously like a precious resource and an abused one; and that the opinions he espoused in China were taken to be not only his opinions but also those of most Americans. (RS)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cultural Differences, English Instruction, English Teachers
Shi, Jian – ADE Bulletin, 1999
Notes that tremendous changes have taken place at universities in China during the 1990s with the shift from centralized planning to the market economy. Suggests that campus culture in China is strongly influenced by the market economy, and that the new culture and situation on Chinese higher education offers more job opportunities to foreign…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Employment Opportunities