Presenting Yin Yang: American Perspectives on Living in China
Edited by CCC Executive Director Alice Renouf and one of CCC's former teachers, professional writer and editor Mary Beth Ryan-Maher, this unique collection of letters offers a rarely seen, intimate, and refreshingly honest view of living and working in China. Here, ordinary people—recent college graduates, teachers, professors, engineers, lawyers, computer whizzes, and parents—recount their experiences in venues ranging from classrooms to marketplaces to holy mountains. The writers are genuine participants in the daily life of their adopted country, and woven throughout their correspondence is the compelling theme of outsiders coping in a culture that is vastly foreign to them and the underlying love-hate struggle it engenders. We follow their initial highs; the shift to general discomfort and then to full-blown culture shock; and slowly, the return of a sense of balance, identity, and normalcy; and finally, the decision to return home or stay. Written in a down-to-earth, personal, often humorous, always authentic style, these tales of trials, successes, and failures offer invaluable insight into a country that remains endlessly fascinating. Yin Yang on Amazon.com...
Harrison X. Tu
Founded in 1977, the Colorado China Council (CCC) is a not-for-profit, non-political, educational outreach organization dedicated to developing programs to deepen the American public's understanding and appreciation of China's history, culture and contemporary life. CCC does this by sending people from North America to China for either a month in the summer, or a full year to teach English, as well as other subjects, at Chinese universities. As a teacher you will also share American history and culture with your Chinese students.
CCC has placed over 700 teachers, making it one of the U.S.'s largest non-religious providers of teachers to China. Right now we are accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Full Year Program (FYP) and the 2012 Jinjiang Summer Program for Teachers.
CCC provides successful applicants with advising, materials, orientation, placement, and makes arrangements for its candidates with the Chinese institutions. For full-year participants, every summer CCC hosts an Intensive TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) and Mandarin training Institute in Sichuan during August.
Professionals in all fields are encouraged to apply. Couples are also given priority.
Knowledge of Chinese language is not a prerequisite.
Graduating seniors and people without teaching experience: The Chinese government stipulates that all applicants who want to teach English in China must have two years of bona fide teaching experience or a TEFL/TESL (Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language) certificate BEFORE the government will issue the official letters of invitation for the Z/work visa. We work with three universities, however, who will accept graduating seniors and people without teaching experience under a different visa status or if you take a seven day TEFL course in China. Please call Alice Renouf at 303.443.1108 to discuss your options