Sonia Holland and Erin O'Brien, both 26, pay about $570 a month for their spacious two-bedroom apartment in Guangzhou, China.

BEIJING – Speak a little English and are willing to relocate? Well, you’re probably qualified to be an English-language instructor in China. As long as you are white, that is. Chinese teaching ...

A few weeks ago, Richard Stephens was teaching English in a school on the edge of the Gobi Dessert. Stephens is the organizer of an non-for-profit international cultural exchange organization Links ...

Eleven years ago, I told my students a story about a frustrating experience I had at a China Mobile office. “No one at that office could speak a word of English,” I told them. “I got so frustrated ...

Emory Babb, now 32, had been struggling with his job in Oregon and started looking for a career change. After a friend suggested teaching English in Beijing, he moved to China in 2017. If he ever left ...

Are you a native English speaker? Or maybe you’re not. Anyway, are you really proficient in English? Do you speak, use, and understand English so well that you’ve even developed a knack for teaching ...

This summer, Chinese state media announced that of the 400,000 foreign citizens working in China as English language teachers in 2017, an estimated two-thirds were doing so illegally. English is big ...

Sonia Holland and Erin O'Brien are childhood friends who grew up in South Africa. They dreamed of traveling the world together, so they became English teachers abroad. They now live in China and say ...