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This podcast tells the story of a year of an English teacher in China, working in an international school in Changshu, Jiangsu. It‘s also full of history and culture. We‘ll go back to the imperial days, the revolutionary days, the days of triumph and the days of humiliation. Mostly though, it‘s modern China that I‘ll focus on, as it is the most relevant to understanding China now. China is super fascinating, and it‘s also probably the most important country in the world to understand right now, so this is my contribution to that. It‘s not a chronological history; instead, it kind of matches up to the things that were occuring in my roller-coaster of a year living in Changshu. I‘ve changed the names of the people I that I met when I was in China, except Jess of course. You‘ll meet Jess later. She‘s awesome. Blog: SMKYpodcast.blogspot.com
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Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
We cycle through the wetlands of Jiangnan to the water town of Jinxi, muse a little on the contradicting feelings of restriction and freedom in China, and then get into the story of modern Tibet.
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Sunday Aug 27, 2023
Sunday Aug 27, 2023
The year end is nigh. School holidays approach. The question to renewing the contract has come. What should a paranoid, anxiety-addled teacher do?
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Saturday Sep 09, 2023
Saturday Sep 09, 2023
We're almost at the end of this troubled tale and, because few stories end as dramatically as Lin Biao's, I think it's time to revisit the ailing marshal and find out how it all went so wrong.
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Sunday Sep 24, 2023
Sunday Sep 24, 2023
In this penultimate episode, the foreign teachers meet for one last time at Brew Kettle, and as the booze takes effect a certain clarity appears.
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Saturday Oct 07, 2023
Saturday Oct 07, 2023
As I was planning my escape from the Cradle, Lisa was just settling in. How did her experience compare to mine? From her home back in the USA, she told me her story.
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Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
And so we are at an end.
Summer break was here, relations with the school were in the gutter, but I'd signed a contract for next year and was effectively trapped.
The only way out was to concoct a cunning scheme, and that's exactly what I did... *cackle*
谢谢，再见
亚当
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