Why I’m Coming Back to China
thebeijinger.com -
Two months ago George Ding decided, like countless expats before, that it was time to leave China. After spending two months home in America, He's decided to come right back.
In the end, he couldn’t even get a job teaching English in the States, because apparently you need like a Ph.D or something.
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The original "Why I'm Leaving China" post is good as well. As is reading about the backlash.
"Five years ago, I had no marketable skills and even less ambition so China seemed like the perfect place to coast by on my foreignness and rugged good looks. But the job market has changed so much that even the lowest standard of what employers are willing to accept has risen beyond my reach. Schools now demand a teacher that won’t hit on students (a right I’m not willing to waive) and companies are looking someone who will show up on time and keep their pants on, even in the summer."
I think Beijing Cream (mentioned in the comments) had a good point:
Ding’s mistake is not that he was joking, but that he didn’t take the joke far enough. In other words, he failed to accomplish the first aim of satire, to be “a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own,” according to Jonathan Swift.