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 ...

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 ...

Six graduating seniors, one recent graduate, and one student from Yale School of Public Health have been awarded teaching fellowships by the Yale-China Association. The students who have been named as ...

Eleven years ago, I told my students a story about a frustrating experience I had at a China Mobile office. “No one at that office could speak a word of English,” I told them. “I got so frustrated ...

My family and I emigrated from Guangdong Province in 1983, when I was six years-old, and from then until my leaving for college I never once thought about China. But during my sophomore year at Yale I ...

Last spring, I was a Fulbright scholar at the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. It was not my first stay in China; back in 1989-90, I taught in Nanjing at the Johns Hopkins University’s ...

On January 30, the leadership at Duke Kunshan University (DKU), where I am an assistant professor of history, decided to move all course instruction online in response to the novel coronavirus ...

A unique and awe-inspiring look into the culture and education of the Chinese people. Students will teach in English in middle schools or high schools in Dalian, a major financial center in northeast ...

China’s approach to teaching math and science differs sharply from that of the United States, concludes a report that details the Asian nation’s use of strong national standards, a logical progression ...

A few weeks ago, Richard Stephens was teaching English in a school on the edge of the Gobi Dessert. Stephens is the organizer of an non-for-profit international cultural exchange organization Links ...

The workday arrives early for Elizabeth Carson. Each morning, she flips on her computer before the sun rises. Halfway across the world, her students are finishing dinner and settling in for an evening ...