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Teaching In Chongqing

Today, China is so important. We need to understand why this empire (it is not a country) acts as it does. What are its intentions? This book is not a political analysis, but simply a record of one westerner’s experiences teaching English in Chongqing. Nevertheless, being part of the daily life of ordinary people has given rise to valuable insights. Chongqing is a major city with some 17 million people: it is not a backwater and was China’s wartime capital. But it is important for another reason. The popular mayor when the author began his time there was Bo Xilai, a rival to Xi Jinping; his subsequent removal and imprisonment says a lot. The author’s daily experiences were fascinating, a real privilege to visit such interesting places and to meet so many wonderful people. These should be shared, which is what this book does.

Greg McEnnally

Greg McEnnally trained as a science teacher, teaching for a number of years in Australia before teaching in Papua New Guinea. Subsequently, he switched to teaching English, training in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) with Cambridge University. He moved to China in 2002, teaching there until 2014. The final three years were spent teaching at SISU (Sichuan International Studies University) in Chongqing. This book is the story of those years: the land, the people, the culture as seen through the eyes of a westerner.

Austin Macauley Publishers