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[Toast]

Not long ago a university in Sichuan was advertising for foreign teachers....they listed the pay rates for BAs, MAs, PhDs etc. and the final / highest one was for Nobel Prize Laureates for which the salary was a whopping 120,000rmb per annum. Haha - "I found the cure for Ebola and now I can come to China and work for food stamps!"

[fat_chris]

[Bud Powell]

fat_chris,

You don't have ebola. It was the street food you had the other night.

[fat_chris]

Ebola is makin' a comeback!

Good timing on that breakthrough, Toast. Time for you to come to the 'chuan and cash in that Golden Ticket with Willy Wonka Daxue here.

You are right though Bud. Sometimes the effects of the street food here make me wish I "only" had Ebola instead.

Warm regards,
fat_chris

[NoBillyNO]

[RWA1981]

[JRJohn]

When I taught in Beijing, people used to complain about the pollution. One guy at the private college complained that in the TOP universities: Peking University, Renmin University, etc. the salaries for western English teachers, not professors were among the lowest in China, and yet the management was among the most demanding. Beijing is also not cheap. The guy then said that the universities attracted visiting scholars, whose real teaching job was back home.
You are saying that even foreign professors are paid peanuts at those universities?

[NoBillyNO]

[Bud Powell]

Re: Western Researching professors. Are they paid extra for this research and writing? Who profits from it?

Their own universities pay them or they are paid through an American endowment or scholarship. Does Fulbright ring a bell? That's just one such program. There are also Sino-American joint programs (none of which come to mind at the moment) which are funded by both governments.

Both parties gain insight into the problem studied.

[fat_chris]