{"id":422,"date":"2004-07-23T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-24T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/23\/flexing-your-chinese-skills-in-china\/"},"modified":"2004-07-23T23:17:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-24T04:17:08","slug":"flexing-your-chinese-skills-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/07\/23\/flexing-your-chinese-skills-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Flexing your Chinese skills in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a384'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n I follow some English blogs of other people&#8217;s life in Asia.  One of them<br \/>\n is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainysmurf.org\/\">Brainysmurf<\/a> who is an American<br \/>\n teaching English in the U.S.   Recently he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainysmurf.org\/archives\/001187.html#comments\">posted<\/a><br \/>\n on some of his thoughts about trying to find a job using Chinese skills<br \/>\n in China.  Needless to say, his thoughts were rather disappointing for<br \/>\n the aspiring Chinese speaker\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n Whereas countries like South Korea and their relatively free press employ<br \/>\n foreigners who know Korean to copy edit their articles (The Marmot, I<br \/>\n understand, is one of them), one glance at the China Daily reveals that they<br \/>\n don&#8217;t even bother. As for myself, I gave up long ago trying to use my<br \/>\n language skills to find a job in a town like Tianjin (although I likely could<br \/>\n in Beijing). I imagine that if one did a survey of Chinese-speaking expats<br \/>\n living in the Middle Kingdom 99 percent of them are somehow connected to<br \/>\n teaching or developing the ESL industry &#8211; a worthy pursuit but the<br \/>\n society&#8217;s choice of how to incorporate laowais is clear.  <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Life is fine if you don&#8217;t mind being an English speaker but trying to<br \/>\n reasonably use your Chinese skills for a job&#8230;  seems to be tougher.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainysmurf.org\/archives\/001187.html#comments\">Read the post yourself<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I follow some English blogs of other people&#8217;s life in Asia. One of them is Brainysmurf who is an American teaching English in the U.S. Recently he posted on some of his thoughts about trying to find a job using Chinese skills in China. Needless to say, his thoughts were rather disappointing for the aspiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}