Qing Wendy

Authenticating documents Authenticating documents at the Chinese Embassy?    ....  What does this mean?? 1. PhD diploma authenticated from the China embassy or consulate in your country.    Keep well the original document. 2.    Certificate of No Criminal Record, which must be authenticated in China embassy or the consulate in your country.    Keep well the original document.  (Acceptance email from China)   One of the first things that you find when you accept a teaching post in China and you start the long winding path towards the Z Visa is:   you need to authenticate your diploma and your background check.   There is a lot of internet chatter about how you do this. One person writes:   I don’t want anything on my diploma.   Another writes:   My son just got a position working in China and the administration is asking us to notarize his diploma.   What does this mean?   Do...

How it started: An email, a random list of tasks and my decision to work in China “We are recruiting teachers for the next academic year 2019-2020.    If everything is OK, I will send you work permit letter in the middle of July.    You are asked to arrive in China after August 26.    The next semester will begin on September 2.” This was the beginning of the acceptance letter that I received on March 21, 2019.   So that was how “It” started.    A few days before, work was another meaningless work day.     I had a 2 hour meeting during which HR discussed a new means on how to evaluate our direct reports.    There were graphs and forms and instructions.    Every year, we would put every employee on a grid.    Each would be labeled from <high potential, high output> to <low potential low output>.   High potential/high output Med potential/high output Low potential/...

Welcome to Wendy and Dave's blog about their adventures teaching in China.  We start at the end of August 2019,and  will be teaching through the year.  We look forward to updating our  adventure.  If there is something that you'd like to learn more about, feel free to leave comments in the comments section.