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Lisle "Wei" Veach retired ESL teacher and former program manager for an international child welfare / adoption agency, lived in China for seven years
Marcia Veach freelance writer, editor, journalist, healthcare professional, lived and worked in China for five and a half years
At Home In China
At Home In China
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Stories from Westerners
gone East
At Home in China
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Episode #08019 - A Recap for the Year of the Rat
To kick off the Chinese New Year of the Rat, Marcia and Lisle read some of the comments AT HOME IN CHINA has received from listeners, interspersed with brief recollections of the many interesting people they've interviewed during the previous year.
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For adopted children
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Monk and monastery, Qian Fo Shan, Jinan,
1993
Episode #08020 - Spending Money with Jonna
How does a foreigner living in China go about spending that hard earned Chinese yuan? Rent an apartment? Find and buy goods and services? Jonna, a young woman from Sweden who lives in Suzhou, gives us her take on this subject, and Marcia and Lisle also discuss the meaning of "fat."
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Episode #08021 - Roger: In the Classroom
There are literally thousands of positions available for native
English speakers in China's colleges and universities. What is it like being a foreign teacher there? We interview Roger, an American teaching English in Chengdu.
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Entry for APRIL, 2008:
ZAIJIAN... for now
With mixed emotions, Marcia and I have decided to put an indefinite hold on our audio podcast programs. While this has been a true labor of love for us, unfortunately it’s been a labor that’s also time-intensive. Changes in our personal commitments, together with my new job helping to organize heritage tours for families of children adopted from China, are demanding more time than we can practically manage within the schedule and on the budget we’ve tried to maintain for this program. So we’re setting our beloved project aside, at least for now.
We appreciate greatly all those who have agreed to be interviewed in China, and we thank warmly all our loyal listeners. We will continue to keep our Website up and our existing podcasts available in our archives for as long as we can afford to do so. Please do drop in and listen to any of the ones you haven’t yet heard, and maybe you’ll discover even more wisdom, wit and wonderful stories from our guests therein. We hope the natural, candid way our guests have shared their experiences has given you a glimpse of the real everyday life in China, as seen through their eyes – a special taste of China you’d be unlikely to get from a tourist trip or a TV documentary.
Our own experiences from the years we lived there confirm a lot of what we’ve heard during this past year as we’ve chatted with our newfound expatriate friends in China. I can’t help thinking how incredibly much Chinese people and Westerners look at the world differently from each other, in ways that most of us can’t imagine, and yet we are all really so much alike. Theirs is a society that has changed, and is changing, more rapidly than probably ought to be possible. Marcia and I often remark how it sometimes seems China is now going through some of the same challenges and growing pains our own nation has experienced - civil rights issues, liberated speech, drugs, divorce, unbridled consumerism, moral decay, uncontrolled urban growth. And yet, the Chinese people are unique. Still, I think we can’t possibly go on mutually misunderstanding all things we share in common with each other. There’s no denying China’s place in the future as a key player in the world, maybe the primary player in the world. I hope she will learn from the mistakes we’ve already made on our side and that she’ll grow in spiritual degrees to the extent she’s grown in material degrees. I think the Chinese people have so much to offer as our good neighbors on this planet.
Please continue sending us your thoughts and comments. And keep checking in... We might be back again soon.
