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Teaching Blues: The problem is not that he is stupid...
It is just that he has taught English for too long!
I know of a man in Kunming who, after teaching English here for a period of about seven years, assumed a managerial position at a friend’s company. The job didn’t go well,...
A SCAM reported to us by one of our members
Steer clear of this company
Be careful if you come across this add. Apparently the company (EPC) is bogus, as you can probably tell from the ridiculous salary (4500 pound). Here is the ad you should...
A MyKindaChina WARNING
FAIL TO READ THIS AT YOUR PERIL
One of the goals (if not the primary one) of the MyKindaChina Team is to bring together honest teachers and honest schools, so that Chinese adults and children can have the best...
A list of China's largest English school chains
Teaching in China: A dummies guide
The opportunities now to teach in China are enormous. No matter where you want to teach there will always be a school waiting for you. If you stay here a while there will be an...
Teaching adults activity
For one class or over a few classes
I stumbled on this last week when I was racking my brains about how to get something out of my students. Its an excellent exercise but what I did was just get students to write...
Game:  Bombers Preparation: Draw 2 castles (a red and a green) on the board.  Each castle is exactly 5 blocks in width (the height isn’t important).  Write...
MKC Teaching advice: Teaching Adults
Day 1 of teaching adults
Teaching adults should be a breeze. The idea of leaving the world of screaming kids sounds great, but its not until you have taught picky, demanding, boring and outright rude...
TEFL Acronyms
What the hell do all these letters really mean?
Its baffling for a new teacher to decide what to study, and what to teach in their teaching career. If you arent studying a TEFL, you are doing a CELTA, and if not a CELTA then...
Kids Game - A Who Dunnit Story
Let your students make their own Who Did What Where When and Why
This is an old favorite. Give each student a sheet of blank paper. Write the following words on the board in a vertical line: WHO, WHAT, HOW, WHERE, WHEN, WHY. Explain that...
China News
Travelers, businesses find a timely tool in Twitter
Man recounts his experience during a plane crash
From USA Today   When Mike Wilson joined Twitter in July 2007, he wasn't expecting it to garner him his proverbial 15 minutes of fame. But that's exactly what happened...
Hopefully the China Daily hasnt jumped the gun, but from their latest report Shanghai officials have finally signed up for Mickey and friends! The Walt Disney Company and the...
Modern Toilet Restaurant
To Eat or to Pee?
    "Toilet Story We are a group of “muckrakers” following our dreams. It all started when one of us was reading the manga, Dr. Slump on the toilet –...
Being worked to death?
Grad in new sought after job. By Paul
Shanghai Daily: THE funeral industry is to hold a job fair for college students at the Shanghai Human Resource Exchange Center, with almost 400 posts on offer.It will be the...
Opening a foreign run bar in China is very much like the Australian cricket team. And I dont just mean the sledging and fake facade of civility. So you've just opened a new bar...
Kidnapping plot fails
Planned from TV show
The ever interesting Shanghai Daily gives us this story of a failed kidnap plot in Shanghai. FOUR alleged kidnappers were arrested yesterday, accused of snatching a wealthy...
Struggling artists to be struggling again
Now they actually do it for art
AFTER 30 years as a professional violinist, Vivian Wolf thought the days of nerve-racking auditions were behind her. Then, the recession hit.In the span of a month, an opera...
Hand-made Swords
Cool gift ideas
These are surely some of the coolest gifts you could get for any male friend!   Dedicated to Samurai Katana Sword Collectors all over the world >>>...
Colonel's secret recipe in new, safer vault at KFC By BRUCE SCHREINER, Associated Press Writer Bruce Schreiner, Associated Press Writer – Tue Feb 10,...
Province News
Shanghai is Sinking
Prepare the life rafts
According to an article at Caijing, Shanghai’s rapid development may be causing the city to sink into the sea. Built on what is largely sandy marshland, according to the...
Delicious Cheese Cake Shop in HongKou
A myriad of sickly and delicious delights
It may strike you as a little strange to choose to write about a cheese cake shop. However, if you take it upon yourself to go and see what all the hype is about you...
Bar Review: M Factory (Videos included)
Chinese Meat Market Crazy Bar. Worth going at least once while you are in Shanghai
A night at M Factory certainly constitutes a somewhat different and even bizarre clubbing encounter. The clientele are mainly Chinese and you will probably see only one other...
Shanghai Brazilian Barbeque
Amazing all-you-can-eat meat bbq, bar and band.
Rarely do you find an eatery, which even falls into the same league as this. When you do, you tell all your friends about it and go back time and again for more delicious food...
The Shanghai Underground experience
Xenophobia or just plain racism?
We expats have a strange relationship with the phenomenon of xenophobia. These occasional encounters of the red-neck kind are a two-edged sword for us bloggy types. They can...
The Shanghai Zoo - Should I or Shouldn't I?
A description of an afternoon at the zoo in Shanghai
I spent all of last weekend in Shanghai with my girlfriend, with two main purposes: to do some shopping for summer clothes; and to visit Shanghai Zoo, as my girlfriend has never...
License-plate flipping and obscuring on the increase
Yet more proof that anything goes on Shanghai roads!
SHANGHAI'S traffic police are teaming up with the city's business watchdog to catch motorists who use and shops that sell "plate flippers" - mechanical devices that hide a car's...
Shanghai still negotiating with Disney on opening the first Disneyland
We are like a couple in love, not married yet, says Mayor
SHANGHAI Mayor Han Zheng said yesterday that the city is still negotiating with Walt Disney on opening the first Disney theme park on the Chinese mainland."We are like a couple...
Business & Money
How to become a millionaire in China
Practical advice from someone who has made it in China
The other day one of our MyKindaChina staff reporters got wind of an incredible story: a foreigner (no different from yourself) who owns 57 apartments in China (worth an...
Corrupt King of Pudong sentenced to life
Surely this will become a movie
Facinating article from the business magazine caijing about the 'landlord of Pudong' (Shanghais wealthiest area), who was sentenced to life for embezzlement and misappropriating...
Grads now struggling for work
Will work for mantou
Interesting article from The Washington Post about the state of grads getting a job in China: BEIJING -- Liu Yongquan thought he was well prepared for China's job...
7-11 Convenience Stores set to open in Shanghai soon
First 4 stores to open before April 2009
TAIWAN-BASED President Chain Store Corp said it plans to open four to six 7-Eleven stores in Shanghai at the end of next month or the beginning of April.This would be the first...
How to become a millionaire?
Start as a billionaire... By Paul
From The China Daily, Forbes give us a list of people who are a lot richer than us (even after losing millions). The number of Chinese mainland billionaires on the world's rich...
Thinking About Buying Property In China?
Read Why The MKC Team Still Believes This Is A Good Proposition
We still recommend ploughing your money into the Chinese property market, although it's not like 7 years ago when you could pick up a place in downtown Shanghai by just using a...
Opening a foreign run bar in China is very much like the Australian cricket team. And I dont just mean the sledging and fake facade of civility. So you've just opened a new bar...
Want to get rich in China? Better be quick!
Chinese economic miracle set to run out of steam by 2020
We, the MKC editorial team, have long held the view that China's economic miracle will not run out of steam until 2020, and now a report by the nation's top economic planner,...
MyKindaChina Business Proposal
We need YOU to help us make MKC the best site for foreigners in China!
We, the MKC Team, are actively in search of creative, intelligent entrepeneurial types to help us expand MyKindaChina into every corner of China.    Sadly...
Living in China
The secret life of expats
And what the Chinese government knows about us
In a previous a blog post I complained about how Chinese textbooks aimed at foreigners seem to have a rather incorrect idea about the life of the foreign students. In these...
Dealing with Depression
Tips on how expats can cope with down days
by Glen in China Expat Advice, Warnings Weather like this can contribute to the expat blues by cogdogblog Let’s face it, China can be a pretty tough place to live....
Baijiu: Chinese tequila
But is the staple paint thinner actually any good?
Drinking the other night with my best mate, he started to wax lyrical about the virtues of different types of Tequila. Now, I appreciate fine wine, good scotch and high quality...
Expats in China
Where do you fit in?
If you asked this question about 15 years ago the answer would have been pretty standard: Fat cat expat sent over by his multinational company who doesnt want to really be here...
China making huge strides in cleaning up its environment
And none too soon, because Chinese emissions are on track to equal that of the rest of the planet
LONDON (Reuters) - China, pilloried as the world's biggest polluter, has quietly taken a lead in moving to a low carbon economy, an independent climate advisory group said on...
Getting a tattoo in China
“Why the hell would you want to do that?”
Tattoos are getting more popular — even in China, where they are traditionally frowned upon in all but one instance — and some of the more daring among you might be tempted...
Chinese greetings
Turns out they're mostly rhetorical
A:Ni hao. (你好)B: Ni hao ma? (你好吗?)A: Wo hen hao. (我很好) The above dialogue, or something like it, is usually the fist snippets of Chinese that anyone studying...
Vegetarians in China
A rough guide (emphasis on "rough")
Since I moved to China eight months or so ago, I’ve came across a large amount of challenges. They have ranged from communication breakdowns, to awkward stares, to being...
Learning Chinese
Does your location within China make a difference
In my time in China I’ve come across several people who have wondered whether studying Chinese in Kunming–where I live–was really worth the effort. After all, the locals...
Quirky News
Whether you're in downtown Shanghai or a one-motorbike town in Mongolia, you're bound to see something bizarre every time you step out of your front door.  Recently we...
More Chinglish signs
submitted by one of our members
(This article was submitted by Legend Kong) It's actually "Chinese English". Been years that those Chinglish signs, tags,advertisings, posters, menus or something like that...
More great Chinglish signs
Man and wife lung slice!?!
With so many English-speaking tourists and businessmen now travelling to China, the Chinese are having to translate their signs to help visitors. Sometimes, though, the message...
The sleeping dumpling
Why it is important to get your tones right
This week I was heckled for my lazy pronunciation of shui3jiao3, “boiled dumpling”, which apparently sounded more like shui4jiao4, “to sleep”, making the restaurant name...
Heres to you Mrs Robinson!
Student falls in love with his teacher
This quirky story from the bastion of reliable China news, The China Daily A 21-year-old man who fell in love with his Chinese language teacher has locked himself inside his...
Chinese businessman stages talent show for his mistresses
Backfires when loser tries to kill them all
CNN - When a married businessman staged an insane talent show to determine which four of his five mistresses should be let go because of the recession, it set the stage for one...
We knew counterfeiting was rife in China
But now even schoolkids are getting into it
Shanghaiist - Counterfeit money in Asia is not just a fantasy fictionalized by that Jackie Chan atrocity film Rush Hour 2. It is a real situation. Very real.. and usually very...
You Know You Have Been In China Too Long When...
1.The footprints on the toilet seat are your own.
2.You no longer wait in line, but go immediately to the head of the queue. 3.You stop at the top or bottom of an escalator to plan your day. 4.It becomes exciting to see if you...
Forbidden secrets: memories of Chinas last eunuch
Sex secrets of the Forbidden City. By Steve
BEIJING – Only two memories brought tears to Sun Yaoting's eyes in old age -- the day his father cut off his genitals, and the day his family threw away the pickled remains...
Travel
Several highlights of this old town, the Nacy ancient music show and those tea houses are my favorites. That show is well-known as three "old": old instrument--those are all...
Dali Old Town - Yunnan Province
Submitted by MKC member Legend
Several must learn in Dali, the old town especial the bar street, Xizhou village, an Erhai lake shore hiking, a biking through entire Dali city, the triple pagoda temple and...
Jiuzhaigou - Sichuan (blog by Legend)
Possibly the most beautiful place in China
Terrible headache never stops torturing me as long as disembark the aircraft in Jiuzhaigou airport meanwhile I wasn’t pretty much bothered by mountain sickness while in Tibet...
Sailing China and South East Asia
Yachts, clubs and marinas in the latest hot destination
  Until recently, luxury yachting and exclusive high-end regattas were rarely considered a pastime, much less an investment opportunity, in Southeast Asia. The Gulf of...
Located in Guangxi Autonomous Region southern China, sharing border with Vietnam to the south, heavenly gifted ever spring climate condition, friendly natives and impressive...
Chengdu—a city of leisure
Hot food, hot temperament (blog by Legend)
Also located in southwestern China, as the provincial capital city of Sichuan Province--the largest populated one with 100 million ppl, unlike Chongqing, another large...
The Yangtze Three Gorges
A legend through past and present (blog by Legend)
Yangtze is the largest river of China, the third largest one in the world. She’s s also considered the mother river of our Chinese that created our culture and civilization....
Surfing in China?
Check out pics of China's best, yet unknown, surfer hangout
On a recent trip to Hainan Island over the Chinese New Year Holiday I was amazed to come across a beach where there's already a surfing culture getting underway. The name of...
Global strolls Suddenly, it hits you. You’ve spent the morning ambling around China’s remote Guizhou Province, sharing dirt roads and terraced rice paddies with the...