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English-language China bloggers unite! The China Blog Network has arrived.

In an effort to tie together all us sinobloggers, we’re launching the China Blog Network, a (appropriately enough) network of China blogs that all link together in a ring-around-the-rosie style (we’re praying we don’t all fall down).

“The cycle of poverty can only be broken through education. Poor peasant farmers struggle to pay the annual school fees for their children to go to primary school but very, very few can afford the higher costs of sending the children to Junior Middle School or beyond. We know that if the children can learn to be comfortable with foreign visitors and speak some English they will be able to get work. Volunteer English Teachers...

This article applies the psychology of cyberspace, particularly the online disinhibition effect, and the concept of oppressed group behavior among foreign English teachers in China to explain the phenomenon of lateral aggression on anonymous Internet forums. Readers are cautioned not to ever reveal their true identities on these forums and to take all advice with a grain of salt.

Asian Americans can't compete with white instructors in China. When Douglas Lee started searching for a job as an English instructor in Chengdu, he seemed just like any other American to his potential employers.

But when he submitted a photo of himself, the 26-year-old graduate of San Diego State University discovered that he had one blemish on his application: He looked too Chinese.

A new edition of Enjoy English will be available for download each week on Sunday night (Beijing Time) in our ESL forum. We hope that you can use Enjoy English to help stimulate conversation in your classroom. TeachAbroadChina.com staff members have already tested Enjoy English and find that it can generally be used for 30-45 minutes depending on how well you are able to expand the contents.

English translations of secrets shared by Chinese people on Tianya, one of China's most popular BBS discussion forums.

Thank you to 'Electric Sinophile' blog for spotting this one on 'Wired'. An item about the development of Chinglish [Chinese English] and how one day it may take off as a language within its own right. Actually, I thought it had . . . .

It's a new twist on globalization: For decades, Chinese made their way to the West, often illegally, to end up doing dangerous, low-paying jobs in sweatshop conditions. Now some foreigners drawn by China's growth and hunger for English lessons are landing in the schoolhouse version of the sweatshop.