Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 27, 2004 2:23:26 GMT 7
Here are some links relating to life in China, or to the teaching of ESL, that I hope you will find useful. I'm not trying for the ubiquitous comprehensive list here, but rather am confining it to those sites that we Barflies have found useful and/or entertaining.
General Info Sites
That's Magazines sites
www.thatsbj.com (Beijing)
www.thatssh.com (Shanghai)
www.thatsgz.com (Guangzhou)
The online companions to the legendary print magazines. Good listings of events, places, sources, etc. in their respective cities and across China. Indispensible for any expat living in China. Highly recommended
Laowai.com Contributed by Nate M
www.laowai.com/laowai.asp?P=Main
An absolutely awesome large and active site with a startling wealth of information about expat life in China. Kind of a sober version of us, only much bigger. A very well-done place indeed, well worth a look! Highly recomended
Location-Specific Sites
Got a great website serving your city, region, or province? PM the URL to Raoul!
City Weekend Magazines sites
www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/beijing/ (Beijing)
www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/shanghai/ (Shanghai)
A bit like the That's sites above but more tightly focused on their two respective cities. Good places to get a handle on where and what in either Beijing or Shanghai.
Tianjin Expats
www.tianjinexpats.net/
If you want to get funky, and you're in Tianjin, then this is the the place to be. Event listings, classifieds, a forum, and just a whole heap of local info and guidance for the Tianjin area. Managed by our own Brother Nate M, so ya know it's gotta be good.
My Red Star (Shandong Province)
www.myredstar.com/
An excellent effort presenting coverage of all things Shandong. Good enough sometimes to be interesting even if you don't live there.
Jinan Live
www.jinanlive.com/index.html
OK, let's face it: You live in Jinan. What the hell, might as well go online. If anything ever moves out there, Jinan Live will cover it for you. Note: Jinan is really OK as cities go. They're just not very selective about who they let live there...
Hangzhou Expat
www.hangzhouexpat.com/
Newbs sends us this entry from the lovely city of Hangzhou. Some good info on things happening there!
Shenzhen Party
www.shenzhenparty.com
Gengrant brings us a lively site for the lively city of Shenzhen. Try and have a good time there, eh?
WUXIlife
www.wuxilife.com/index.php
Wuxi is not a big city, but they have a nice local website. This is the place to go to find the scene in Wuxi. NOTE: Beware the local women in Wuxi.
Ningbo Guide
www.ningboguide.com/
Monkey King has favored us with this nice little site featuring Whut-Up info and a forum with the skinny on doings in Ningbo.
Chongqing Live
www.chongqinglive.com/
Nate's vast vault has contributed this site with places and events in Chongqing.
DalianXpat
dalianxpat.com/
Nate also brings us this cool site for Dalian, the jewel of the Northeast. Good city coverage, and some bones are thrown to Shenyang and other Dongbei cities.
Hefei Expat
www.hefeiexpat.com/forum/
Hefei has its own website! Not sure why. But seriously, if it's in Hefei, and worth knowing about, this site gots ya covered. Thanks again, Nate.
Wuhan Expat (contributed by dawgstarman)
www.wuhantime.com/
At last, a pretty good website for the big hot city on the Yangzi. All kinds of city info and a lively forum.
Job Listing Sites
AsiaXpat
www.asiaxpat.com
During the weasel deal that gutted the old That's Magazines web sites, AsiaXpat ended up with their huge and lively classifieds section. That's is taking back its turf, but AsiaXpat still has a big collection of English-language classifieds.
TESall.com
www.tesall.com
An impressive effort with lots of job listings and worldwide coverage. (Unfortunately most are the same listings seen on many other sites...) Also has a bit of a (relatively serious) forum going, plus some innovative news and other services. A bit like Dave's ESL Cafe, only without the jackboots and swastikas. Highly Recommended
Buxiban.com (contributed by Jollyjunklass)
www.buxiban.com
Another very interesting site with info on China and Taiwan. Combines job listings with member ratings about the experience at the school. They have school blacklists...and also foreign teacher blacklists. About damn time. Appears to be another site run by The Good Guys. (Note: Buxiban now seems to be charging a subscription fee for access to most of its services...)
Teachers.Net Job Listings (Contributed by Burl Gable)
teachers.net/jobs/jobboard/abroad/
A massive job site listing an incredible number and variety of teaching jobs around the world. Goes well beyond just ESL jobs. Highly Recommended
Dave's ESL Cafe's International Jobs Board
www.eslcafe.com/joblist
Just because their China forums are run by evil little fascists doesn't mean we can't exploit the other things they offer. A large list of mostly ho-hum jobs in garden spots all over the world.
TEFL.com
www.tefl.com
Claims to be the world's largest database of ESL job listings. Again, mostly mediocre jobs here, but what they lack in quality they make up for in vast quantity. They can't all be dweebs, right? Right?
ESL Teachers Board (contributed by Jollyjunklass)
link deleted
I've removed the link to this site. I was fairly active on their forum there until I learned that they censor perfectly legitimate and true teacher reviews of schools. This site has no credibility any more. Therefore, I do not go there or link there any longer.
The Guardian TEFL Jobs Page (contributed by Monkey King)
jobs.guardian.co.uk/browse/education/tefl/index.jsp?
From the famous UK newspaper. A lot of the jobs are in the UK but many are in China and worldwide. The number of current jobs was small compared to some of these other sites, but the quality was better than average in many cases.
jobs.ac.uk (contributed by Monkey King)
www.jobs.ac.uk/sector/languages/
Another UK site; this one is a general employment site a la Monster or HotJobs. Small number of non-UK jobs, but mostly rather high-ranking- as in professor-level positions.
Classified Post Online
www.classifiedpost.com/jshome.php?lcid=HK.EN
The online classifieds of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. Lots of job listings in every category. Mostly in HK, but also features a lot of mainland jobs.
zhaopin.com
www.zhaopin.com
For when you finally get enough of teaching and decide to try your luck among the saintly philanthropists who run businesses in China. Zillions of business-job listings all over China. It's a lot like the more famous 51job.com, with the crucial difference that zhaopin's English-language search screen actually works. Most listings in Chinese, and most of the remainder requiring fluent Sinophones, but there are some you might have a shot at.
Working and Teaching-Related Sites
There's just a pooload (heavy emphasis on the poo) of well-worn teaching tips at the aforementioned Dave's ESL Cafe to be found at www.eslcafe.com/ideas. Again, if it's useful to you why not take it? Stay away from the miserable forums and you'll be safe enough.
Nate's China School Review
www.ChinaSchoolReview.net
Our brothers, our friends, our affiliates in the Laowai Liberation League, helping wrest our community and the information we need out of the hands of the school owners and corporate types, and into the hands of those of us who live here and work these jobs. Long live the fighters! A growing collection of reviews of English schools all over China, written by the poor bastards who have worked there. Please give them a visit. Better yet, help hold up Your End and post a review, good or bad, of an employer. Hosted by our own Nate M! Highly recommended
English School Watch
englishschoolwatch.org/index.shtml
A worldwide collection of English school information, including a discussion board. Afflicted by an inflexible user interface and a slow server, but performing an invaluable service and well worth the wait. Note: This site, sadly, appears to be dead. The forum hasn't been updated since June 16... It's truly a pity...
Onestop English (contributed by Monkey King)
www.onestopenglish.com/index.htm
Outstanding collection of TESL resources sponsored by Macmillan Publishing. Their vast library of lesson plans may be of most interest. They also have a small but moderately active Serious Teachers' forum (sobriety required!) and a small but interesting supply of international teaching jobs. Highly recommended
The Amity Teacher's Toolkit (contributed by Monkey King)
www.amityfoundation.org/page.php?page=247
Brought to you by the Amity Foundation, a China-centered organization devoted to teaching, development, and imposing your personal religious beliefs upon the Godless heathen. However, their Teacher's Toolkit is a surprisingly large, good, diverse, and non-sectarian collection of resources...some great and useful stuff.
TEFLChina (submitted by Jollyjunklass)
teflchina.org/index.htm
A very respectable source of links to all kinds of information relating to living and working in China. Their links to teaching resources and their mentor list for various Chinese cities are particularly nice.
AAC
www.aacircle.com.au/forums/index.php
This site is produced by a company that provides services for expat teachers as well as students of English. I'm not sure what "AAC" stands for, but they're from Australia so you know they're really sober and serious people. Their site has a very nice EFL-related forum as well as job listings, lesson plans, and lots of other resources. Nice place.
General Info Sites
That's Magazines sites
www.thatsbj.com (Beijing)
www.thatssh.com (Shanghai)
www.thatsgz.com (Guangzhou)
The online companions to the legendary print magazines. Good listings of events, places, sources, etc. in their respective cities and across China. Indispensible for any expat living in China. Highly recommended
Laowai.com Contributed by Nate M
www.laowai.com/laowai.asp?P=Main
An absolutely awesome large and active site with a startling wealth of information about expat life in China. Kind of a sober version of us, only much bigger. A very well-done place indeed, well worth a look! Highly recomended
Location-Specific Sites
Got a great website serving your city, region, or province? PM the URL to Raoul!
City Weekend Magazines sites
www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/beijing/ (Beijing)
www.cityweekend.com.cn/en/shanghai/ (Shanghai)
A bit like the That's sites above but more tightly focused on their two respective cities. Good places to get a handle on where and what in either Beijing or Shanghai.
Tianjin Expats
www.tianjinexpats.net/
If you want to get funky, and you're in Tianjin, then this is the the place to be. Event listings, classifieds, a forum, and just a whole heap of local info and guidance for the Tianjin area. Managed by our own Brother Nate M, so ya know it's gotta be good.
My Red Star (Shandong Province)
www.myredstar.com/
An excellent effort presenting coverage of all things Shandong. Good enough sometimes to be interesting even if you don't live there.
Jinan Live
www.jinanlive.com/index.html
OK, let's face it: You live in Jinan. What the hell, might as well go online. If anything ever moves out there, Jinan Live will cover it for you. Note: Jinan is really OK as cities go. They're just not very selective about who they let live there...
Hangzhou Expat
www.hangzhouexpat.com/
Newbs sends us this entry from the lovely city of Hangzhou. Some good info on things happening there!
Shenzhen Party
www.shenzhenparty.com
Gengrant brings us a lively site for the lively city of Shenzhen. Try and have a good time there, eh?
WUXIlife
www.wuxilife.com/index.php
Wuxi is not a big city, but they have a nice local website. This is the place to go to find the scene in Wuxi. NOTE: Beware the local women in Wuxi.
Ningbo Guide
www.ningboguide.com/
Monkey King has favored us with this nice little site featuring Whut-Up info and a forum with the skinny on doings in Ningbo.
Chongqing Live
www.chongqinglive.com/
Nate's vast vault has contributed this site with places and events in Chongqing.
DalianXpat
dalianxpat.com/
Nate also brings us this cool site for Dalian, the jewel of the Northeast. Good city coverage, and some bones are thrown to Shenyang and other Dongbei cities.
Hefei Expat
www.hefeiexpat.com/forum/
Hefei has its own website! Not sure why. But seriously, if it's in Hefei, and worth knowing about, this site gots ya covered. Thanks again, Nate.
Wuhan Expat (contributed by dawgstarman)
www.wuhantime.com/
At last, a pretty good website for the big hot city on the Yangzi. All kinds of city info and a lively forum.
Job Listing Sites
AsiaXpat
www.asiaxpat.com
During the weasel deal that gutted the old That's Magazines web sites, AsiaXpat ended up with their huge and lively classifieds section. That's is taking back its turf, but AsiaXpat still has a big collection of English-language classifieds.
TESall.com
www.tesall.com
An impressive effort with lots of job listings and worldwide coverage. (Unfortunately most are the same listings seen on many other sites...) Also has a bit of a (relatively serious) forum going, plus some innovative news and other services. A bit like Dave's ESL Cafe, only without the jackboots and swastikas. Highly Recommended
Buxiban.com (contributed by Jollyjunklass)
www.buxiban.com
Another very interesting site with info on China and Taiwan. Combines job listings with member ratings about the experience at the school. They have school blacklists...and also foreign teacher blacklists. About damn time. Appears to be another site run by The Good Guys. (Note: Buxiban now seems to be charging a subscription fee for access to most of its services...)
Teachers.Net Job Listings (Contributed by Burl Gable)
teachers.net/jobs/jobboard/abroad/
A massive job site listing an incredible number and variety of teaching jobs around the world. Goes well beyond just ESL jobs. Highly Recommended
Dave's ESL Cafe's International Jobs Board
www.eslcafe.com/joblist
Just because their China forums are run by evil little fascists doesn't mean we can't exploit the other things they offer. A large list of mostly ho-hum jobs in garden spots all over the world.
TEFL.com
www.tefl.com
Claims to be the world's largest database of ESL job listings. Again, mostly mediocre jobs here, but what they lack in quality they make up for in vast quantity. They can't all be dweebs, right? Right?
ESL Teachers Board (contributed by Jollyjunklass)
link deleted
I've removed the link to this site. I was fairly active on their forum there until I learned that they censor perfectly legitimate and true teacher reviews of schools. This site has no credibility any more. Therefore, I do not go there or link there any longer.
The Guardian TEFL Jobs Page (contributed by Monkey King)
jobs.guardian.co.uk/browse/education/tefl/index.jsp?
From the famous UK newspaper. A lot of the jobs are in the UK but many are in China and worldwide. The number of current jobs was small compared to some of these other sites, but the quality was better than average in many cases.
jobs.ac.uk (contributed by Monkey King)
www.jobs.ac.uk/sector/languages/
Another UK site; this one is a general employment site a la Monster or HotJobs. Small number of non-UK jobs, but mostly rather high-ranking- as in professor-level positions.
Classified Post Online
www.classifiedpost.com/jshome.php?lcid=HK.EN
The online classifieds of Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. Lots of job listings in every category. Mostly in HK, but also features a lot of mainland jobs.
zhaopin.com
www.zhaopin.com
For when you finally get enough of teaching and decide to try your luck among the saintly philanthropists who run businesses in China. Zillions of business-job listings all over China. It's a lot like the more famous 51job.com, with the crucial difference that zhaopin's English-language search screen actually works. Most listings in Chinese, and most of the remainder requiring fluent Sinophones, but there are some you might have a shot at.
Working and Teaching-Related Sites
There's just a pooload (heavy emphasis on the poo) of well-worn teaching tips at the aforementioned Dave's ESL Cafe to be found at www.eslcafe.com/ideas. Again, if it's useful to you why not take it? Stay away from the miserable forums and you'll be safe enough.
Nate's China School Review
www.ChinaSchoolReview.net
Our brothers, our friends, our affiliates in the Laowai Liberation League, helping wrest our community and the information we need out of the hands of the school owners and corporate types, and into the hands of those of us who live here and work these jobs. Long live the fighters! A growing collection of reviews of English schools all over China, written by the poor bastards who have worked there. Please give them a visit. Better yet, help hold up Your End and post a review, good or bad, of an employer. Hosted by our own Nate M! Highly recommended
English School Watch
englishschoolwatch.org/index.shtml
A worldwide collection of English school information, including a discussion board. Afflicted by an inflexible user interface and a slow server, but performing an invaluable service and well worth the wait. Note: This site, sadly, appears to be dead. The forum hasn't been updated since June 16... It's truly a pity...
Onestop English (contributed by Monkey King)
www.onestopenglish.com/index.htm
Outstanding collection of TESL resources sponsored by Macmillan Publishing. Their vast library of lesson plans may be of most interest. They also have a small but moderately active Serious Teachers' forum (sobriety required!) and a small but interesting supply of international teaching jobs. Highly recommended
The Amity Teacher's Toolkit (contributed by Monkey King)
www.amityfoundation.org/page.php?page=247
Brought to you by the Amity Foundation, a China-centered organization devoted to teaching, development, and imposing your personal religious beliefs upon the Godless heathen. However, their Teacher's Toolkit is a surprisingly large, good, diverse, and non-sectarian collection of resources...some great and useful stuff.
TEFLChina (submitted by Jollyjunklass)
teflchina.org/index.htm
A very respectable source of links to all kinds of information relating to living and working in China. Their links to teaching resources and their mentor list for various Chinese cities are particularly nice.
AAC
www.aacircle.com.au/forums/index.php
This site is produced by a company that provides services for expat teachers as well as students of English. I'm not sure what "AAC" stands for, but they're from Australia so you know they're really sober and serious people. Their site has a very nice EFL-related forum as well as job listings, lesson plans, and lots of other resources. Nice place.