GUANGZHOU CHINA |
|
| Most Popular Provinces: Beijing - Changsha - Chengdu - Chongqing City - Guangzhou - Guilin - Hangzhou - HongKong - Kunming - Lhasa is occupied - Macau - Nanjing - Sanya - Shanghai - Suzhou - Xi'an |
LATEST NEWSRe: I have a few questions about teaching English in China.?The degree holders here in China and Thailand are even dumber than those in the West, they are as dumb as dogs..t! Even those with PhD. Yes, I agree. I have two PhDs and several Master degrees, that would make me n-times dumber than others. But I am not as dumb as a dog; dogs can quite intelligent animals. I must be as dumb as a crocodile........LOL... Re: I have a few questions about teaching English in China.?A degree is not a sign of competence, never has been and never will be. The degree holders here in China and Thailand are even dumber than those in the West, they are as dumb as dogs..t! Even those with PhD. The world is indeed in serious trouble when we have so many stupid "educated" people in charge of almost everything!... Re: I have a few questions about teaching English in China.?The problem with degrees today is that so many people now have them that even dumb people are now walking around with a degree. The dumb people end up in bureaucracy and develop forms and processes with a tick box requiring all applicants to have a degree. The question today is: How do you determine whether someone is competent of not? The answer is; interview them. Of course, this only works if the interviewer is not one of the dumb people. If you have started a degree then it would be wise to complete it. Not because it adds value (it may) but because then you can tick those forms. In the meantime you can always get a part-time job flipping burgers to get used to the income of an English teacher. Don't forget to keep your eye on what you really want to do to earn a living, after you have... Can anyone tell me about Ascot International School in Hang Zhao?Hi! I'm just curious about Ascot International School in Hang Zhao, China? Does anyone know how they treat teachers there? How's the compensation system?... Top 5 Chinese New Year Gifts Ideas - Looking to Buy Chinese New Year Gifts For Relatives?You plan to visit your friends or relatives during this Chinese New Year but not sure what to buy? Here, we have listed down the best possible gifts you can buy and they are affordable too! 1 - Peach Blossoms Peach blossom is a great gift, especially if you want to wish the other party good luck in their relationships. Peach in Chinese is known as "tao" and it symbolizes love and relationships. It is much more meaningful this year since the western Valentines Day falls on the first day of Chinese New Year. 2 - Mandarin Oranges Mandarin oranges or the orange tree that represents gold and money are great as gifts. Mandarin oranges are known as "kam" in Chinese and the pronunciation sounds similar to the word "gold". Therefore giving mandarin oranges as gifts is as good as giving gold! 3 - Bo... 7 Do's and Don'ts During the Chinese New Year - Steps to Chinese New Year Prosperity and HappinessUsually there are a lot of so-called rules and regulations to celebrate the Chinese New Year. There will be do's and don'ts that you need to be aware of on certain days during Chinese New Year. All those listed below should be taken note of. 1 - Sweeping Floors Sweeping and cleaning is usually prohibited during the Chinese New Year. It is said that when you clean, you will tend to sweep away all your luck. Hence, people usually do not clean their house even if it's dirty during the Chinese New Year. Some only restrict that to the first day of Chinese New Year. Even if you really have to sweep the house, then you sweep them to a corner and leave it there. Though it sounds a little superstitious, it is still the tradition that everyone is practicing. Just relax and enjoy your celebration. Do... Most irritating habits of (small city) ChineseMost irritating habits of (small city) Chinese I’ve lived in small Chinese cities by choice, and while I continue to do so because I really enjoy doing so, there are times when I find my skin a little thin and, just as how when one’s immune system is low one can catch colds, certain common behavior of Chinese people in small cities can irk the crap out of me. Big city Chinese may exhibit similar characteristics, but in my experience travelling it’s so watered down that I don’t even notice it. It’s a relief to be in a place like Chengdu or Kunming, for example. Here, my friends, is a compendium of typical and ubiquitous behavior that can irritate the unaccustomed or jaded foreigner alike. Needless to say, there are Chinese nationals who are just as offended or more so by this behavior as I ... Understanding and Incorporating Chinese Decorating TouchesChinese decorating often focuses on interesting patterns and colors. Although traditional Chinese decorating almost always has a beautiful balanced appearance, it also has an intriguing and often complicated beauty that can include rich textures and vibrant patterns and colors. The Chinese influence in decorating has become quite popular, even outside of China. Overall Chinese Decorating Techniques As opposed to Japanese decorating styles, Chinese decorating often includes more lavish designs and intricate details. Although the style is not as minimalist as Japanese decorating, it still has a simple look that doesn't include clutter, giving an overall feeling that the decorating items were selected carefully to create a specific effect. Many of the objects used in Chinese decorating also h... Re: EF GuangzhouIt is a question you should perhaps better ask in on the Teacher Discussion and/or the School and Recruiter Review Board on this site. The chance to get a helpful reply there is higher there.... EF GuangzhouHello everyone I would be grateful if someone could give me some info on EF English First in Guangzhou. I have been offered a job in one of the Kids schools in the city and would like to hear from people who have experience working at any of these schools. I have read many of the comments on this forum about EF which has prompted my message. Constructive comments would be appreciated. Many thanks... Re: Why Do Chinese Girls Want To Marry Western Men?Gimmie a break with the above. Let me get this straight, you've had, over your years teaching in college, some STUDENTS approach you with interest of being your girlfriend or getting married. Is that right? And you weren't interested. And this is why you avoid Chinese women? Well, I'm also a college teacher and I get a lot of propositions from students. They're students. Of course some will get little crushes on their teachers. This isn't their fault so much as just a power relationship, and it's pretty common in the West as well. Don't let it go to your head. And you'd better not go for it, because they are, again, your students, and half your age at best. As for Chinese women who you can meet outside of your classroom, that's a different story. Some of the things people said in this thre... Questions about my govt. uni. job in ChinaI'm already working at a government university and everything's going fine. Mostly I love my job. However, there can be small complications around getting correct factual information (such as when finals were), and I thought it might be easier to ask here, where I know there are teachers with similar positions, rather than use up my pestering-the-bureaucracy credits with actually pertinent questions. All the foreign teachers at this uni are new, so we're all in the dark on some things and have been blindsided by surprises in they past. 1) Bonuses. I hear we only get the "flight" bonus if we actually take a flight and produce a receipt. Otherwise we get nothing. My guess is the bonus won't cover the full cost of flights because they've gone up dramatically. I was not intending on going home... Re: Accent Reduction For Chinese Speakers of English - Interference typologyYou mentioned the following problems in pronunciation for Chinese native speakers below: 1) distinguishing between the r and l sounds In Chinese, there is no clear distinction between /r/ and /l/. The sound commonly transcribed as "r" in Pinyin is a retroflex sound non-existent in English. Chinese native speakers tend to substitute Chinese retroflex Pinyin r for /r/ in English because of this. 2) distinguishing between the n and ng sounds For speakers of Putonghua (Mandarin) as a first language in the northern and south western part of China, phonological discrimination between final /n/ and /ng/ should not be a problem because it is a common phonological feature in their language. In a couple of Chinese dialects of south eastern China, on the other hand, it is a problem because there is n... China Travel GuideThis modern day city of Guangzhou in China is a port on the Pearl River navigable to the South China Sea. It is 120 km North West of Hong Kong and as per the year 2000 census it has a population of approximately 17.85 million. This makes it the most populous province and the third most populous in all of mainland China. Guangzhou covers a large land area and comes second only to Beijing and Shanghai. The first known city at Guangzhou is Panyu that was established in 214 B.C. As a modern day city, Guangzhou has various tourist attractions. These include the Temple of the Six Banyan Trees so called because the writer Su Shi wrote about the six banyan trees that he saw there. An ancient Buddhist temple built in 537 B.C in the Liang dynasty can be seen in Guangzhou. It contains a flower pagoda... Re: Nope!As far as I know John you must be married for 5 years amd life in China for all of those 5 years before you can apply for a Chinese sponsered visa. You are suppose to still have to go through the same process to get a work visa. That is what I was once told after I got married to my wife. I am thinking from what you have told us about destroying your old visa that you also destroyed the only copy that you had of your old work visas. I would think that with a lot of effort you should be able to track down copies of your old visas from the different PSB offices in those different cities to be able to prove that you have been in the country all this time since your marriage. I do not know how efficent the head offices of the PSB is and if they would have in their computers the places and name... Re: An African English teacher in ChinaHello Stephen, It's great to read from you after a long time. Thanks for getting in touch. After those years in Beijing here we meet again. It's a small world. I thought I was hiding...hahaha. I am in Shanghai. I spend a lot of time building my online community. It's called MyEE community. If you find time check it out let's have some fun. I hope you are having a wonderful time in China. Keep in touch. Merry Christmas. Denis... Re: An African English teacher in ChinaHey Denis! Good to hear from you again. This is Stephen (not History teacher Steven), I worked with you at KISB as a science teacher. Always wondered how you were doing after you left KISB. I didn't know you were in Shanghai. For anyone reading this, Denis is one of the best teachers out there! It was a pleasure working with him and joking around in the teacher's room together (And he is one of the best-dressed people you will ever work with!!!). A true professional! Just goes to show you what a shame racisim really is...anyone that would refuse to have Denis as a teacher because of the color of his skin is voluntarilly turning away one of the best teachers they could have. Good to know everything is well with you!!... Re: Chinese Dining Etiquette (Article)Different parts of China have different dining. Living in the villages of South China dining a round a table with a gas bottle underneath and a hotpot slowly stewing on top all picking out peices of food you like with a bowl of rice is very common and traditional. A real joy... Re: xiamen OVERSEAS EDUCATION ... AVOID . ITS A CHEAT AND LIE.It's really too bad.... Re: I want a job in China that isn't teaching. Any ideas?I'm living in China,but i want to find a job in Canada.Let's have a change :)... xiamen OVERSEAS EDUCATION ... AVOID . ITS A CHEAT AND LIE.Hello, My name is TAHIR. and I came from London. I want to warn all the foreigners who will be recruited by certain CHEN JIN CAI FROM Overseas education in XIamen. This recruiter or owner of the training school will be nice to you at first but he will lie and cheat you at the end. He got many foreign friends.. this is his favorite line... hahah.. but all gone and was not paid. I worked for a week and my grandma died and was not got paid. I never cared.. but at least he could have offered. I heard the next teacher wasnt able to get the pay too. This school in china should be blacklisted. Giving bad accomodation is HUI AN GUANGHAI Middle schools. or QUANZHOU no. 7 school. NEver process foreigner work visa. ALL he cares is charging the students 5000 rmb each... [edited] and never learned anyt... Re: salariesI Agree wholeheartedly... I was in China 2 years ago making 12,000 rmb a month for 20 hours a week. I had a free apartment and a maid. Now I live and teach in Thailand. Thailand is hands down a cleaner, more friendly, more beautiful country with a much more relaxed work environment. The catch is, the salary here is about half as much as I WAS making in China. I pull down the equivalent of about 6200 rmb / month here. That appears to be well above the going wage in China now however. Why would I leave the paradise that is Thailand to go back to the industrial wasteland that is China for less money?? If Salaries continue to go down, qualified individuals (read: people with experience, a degree, a teaching certification, etc.) are going to stay where they are instead of going to China to teac... Re: The People's Republic of China - Interesting Facts!Not sure where you get your facts from, but it is a myth that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space.... The People's Republic of China - Interesting Facts!World Heritage Sites Did you know - China's Great Wall is one of the New Seven Wonders of the world since 2007. Curiously, it, a national symbol, is the only UNESCO Wonder visible from space. Otherwise, the People's Republic boasts more Universal Wonders than any country in the world: 38 World Heritage Sites (compared to 20 in the United States), among them the Lushan National Park, Yungang Grottoes, Yin Xu and Fujian Tulou. Chinese Cuisine Did you know - China's cuisine is one of the most popular on Earth, from Buenos Aires and New York to Paris, as well as Tokyo and Moscow. It boasts eight regional cuisines : Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan and Zhejiang cuisines. Land Area Did you know - The PRC has an area of 3,706,566 sq. mi /9,326,411 sq. km., making it the... Re: GAC/OWENS Chongqing warningI am sorry to hear what happened to you. What will be your option now? Can you secure a new job, perhaps at a better school? The "school" you have worked for until now must be what we call a "crap, pretend 'school'" here. GAC is a big business and cheat, and you are a decent teacher not wanting to form part of it. Have you ever considered working for a decent (state-run) middle school or uni/college? I would highly recommend to look into that option; you might be better off then in terms of conditions and job security. I wish you well, good luck!... GAC/OWENS Chongqing warningI paid for my flight and a flat rental deposit six months ago, when I singed a contract with the GAC center owned by OWENS and Verakin High School (Sino-American International School). After virtually no attempts to discipline my students for their poor attendance and performance by the school and the manager Michelle, I demanded the center spoke to the kids parents. As nothing was done, I had little choice, but resign on a moth notice (professionally). My manager has informed me that my last month salary would be cut in half as I did not have to teach the sad class. I am furious and want to let everyone know this company is to watch out for!!!... Re: An African English teacher in ChinaDear Kelly, Thank you for your comment and encouragements. Every time I get a comment about this article (this is the 49th mail I have received) it is comforting to know that there are people out there who want an end to such a malpractice. An African friend of mine in Sichuan has been acting as an American English teacher for two years now. He was cornered two months ago when a real American was hired. A lot of contradictions with the things he had told the students! Unfortunately, the people that matter in the education industry do not consider this to be a serious problem. Are we really educating? Cheers!... Re: An African English teacher in ChinaHi Denis DNT I am really glad you are out there lighting a candle. You have explained your situation so well! The ignorance that is called racism is truly beyond me, but I know that people are a product of their upbringing and so I hope that the next generation changes all that for the better. I am sorry to hear the way it is for Africans in China. I have many African friends both in Africa and in places like Malaysia and Morocco, and I do understand the hardships and discriminations faced by many of them. I had hoped China would be different and it distresses me to find that it isn't. When will be able to share the world, have no borders, come and go like free human beings? When can we rejoice in our differences as well as our similarities? When will the quality of someone's character be ... Re: Buckland GroupThat is why I call him and his rather doubtful business "Bucks in the Land"!... Re: Buckland GroupOwen is still a profiteer and a cheat, regardless of whether or not you are satisfied with his services. ExTC... Province of Guangzhou GUANGZHOU , once known to the Western world as Canton , leaves many people with the unfavourable impression that China dwells in relentless chaos and that the city is simply a bad caricature of Hong Kong. Guangzhou is indeed very much modern China pushed to the limits: the traffic and pollution are horrendous, bridges and crumbling flyovers which seemed ludicrously over-ambitious when built in the mid-1980s now groan under the weight of vehicles and shelter the homeless during wet weather, and the city seems not so much to be booming as blowing apart at the seams. Buffeted by the crowds, travellers tend to stay only long enough to tackle a couple of temples and museums before organizing a ticket out, hoping that the rest of the country will prove less overwhelming. Solidly geared to business rather than tourism, it may seem in any case that Guangzhou has little to offer the casual visitor. In purely practical terms, however, while the city is expensive compared with some parts of China, it's considerably cheaper than Hong Kong - particularly in regard to shopping and onward travel . Airfares into China from Guangzhou are about half what you'd pay south of the border, allowing big savings even after you factor in transport from Hong Kong and a night's accommodation. You'll also find that, having mastered the initial shock, Guangzhou is a city you can learn to enjoy. Compared with Beijing's bureaucratic aloofness or the image-conscious populace of Shanghai, the city's inhabitants are immediately upfront, and pleasantly indifferent to foreign faces after two thousand years of contact with the outside world. They're also compulsively garrulous, turning Guangzhou's two famous obsessions - eating and business - into social occasions, and filling streets, restaurants and buildings with the alternately guttural and musical sounds of Yuehua , the rhythmic Cantonese language. Guangzhou has also traditionally been the first place where foreign influences have seeped into the country, often through returning Overseas Chinese, and this is where to watch for the latest fashions and to see how China will interpret alien styles. The sounds of techno, Canto-pop, and punk fill the night-clubs here, not karaoke and Chinese folk tunes, and youths in leather and blue-tinted, wraparound sunglasses ride Japanese Harley-Davidson clones. Although the city lacks any great sights, you can easily ditch its Western veneer by wandering into the maze of flagstoned back lanes, in search of monuments and busy markets hidden away from casual observers. The City
|