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Clair Lasater
International Office
Shandong Jiaotong University
5 Jiaoxiao Road
Jinan, Shandong, China
250023

claircl2003@hotmail.com

Fax +86-531-8068-7610

(I've been published in
Guardian and China Daily.)
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The China University C. V. Advantage

by Clair Lasater

When the wind blows, even the turkeys fly.
East Coast saying

One advantage of hopping on a plane to Shanghai, to teach college in China, is C. V. enhancement. Those grad- uates who can't seem to even get started teaching in U. S. academe -- there is really no way, for most to get hired on -- are sure to obtain a post working at a Chinese college or university. Many hundreds of these jobs are begging takers, each school year.

Even those with no graduate degree get these plums. A four-year degree of any sort will do it, because China current- ly values Western college graduates with native accents.

Those taken aboard in a China college or university will have a free furnished, unshared apartment, a salary, and will lecture only 12, 14, 16, 18, or 20 hours a week.

"Oh, another guy with a master's degree, driving a cab," commented one of my fares, as I drove him to class, at a world-famous university. (I had told him on the way, about my M. A.) Of course, I quite envied the man.

Months later, I read about TEFL, (teaching English as a foreign language), and internet-applied for a job in China. I was hired immediately.

(For direct telephone and e-mail contact with the offices hiring, at each of over 100 colleges and universities, see www.chinatefl.com. On this site, click "Teach in China" at the top. At www.coachdevelop.com, click "China EFL Jobs" at the top of the homepage, to get access to direct contact with almost all of the 250 colleges, universities, high schools, and private academies listed.)

Now, I'm entering year ten of lecturing Writing, and Spoken English, in the P. R. C. My C. V. at this point, impresses me profoundly. Hainan University, Shunde Polytechnic, the Hunan University of Science and Engineering, and Maoming University cited on my resume do look better to me, and to a potential employer, than, "Ace Cab," and "ice cream truck."

Biography: Clair Lasater has taught Spoken
English as a professor at Hainan University,
Ling Ling University (now the Hunan University
of Science and Engineering), Maoming University,
and Shunde Polytechnic.

He is published in the Guardian, (a world-famous
newspaper), and in China Daily.

[Editor: I have publishable pdf China university
campus photographs that suit this article.]

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