Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Seven Year Laowai
    The Seven Year Laowai
    The Seven Year Laowai
    Ebook38 pages31 minutes

    The Seven Year Laowai

    By Travis Lee

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    An ESL teacher's recollections of the seven years he spent teaching English in Wuhan, China.

    From the alcoholism which led him there to the nasty power games that pushed him out, The Seven Year Laowai provides an unflinching look at the lives of ESL teachers in the smoggy never-never land of Wuhan, China.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTravis Lee
    Release dateOct 12, 2013
    ISBN9781301981274
    The Seven Year Laowai
    Author

    Travis Lee

    Travis Lee lived in Wuhan, China for two years. He currently resides in the States.

    Read more from Travis Lee

    Related authors

    Related to The Seven Year Laowai

    Related ebooks

    Biographical/AutoFiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Name A Song

      Oct 9, 2019

      Name A Song
      12 min read

    • Article

      Not That Story

      Oct 28, 2017

      Not That Story
      7 min read

    • Article

      Alan Cumming

      Nov 1, 2021

      Alan Cumming
      5 min read

    • Article

      Monica Ali

      Feb 7, 2022

      Monica Ali
      5 min read

    • Article

      Perfection

      Jun 9, 2020

      For years I could barely write a page. I thought I was becoming a virtuoso of smallness while the grief, which is wordless, occupied an ever-greater volume. My friend lived in the estates on the bad side of town. Let’s go to the forest, she said when

      9 min read

    • Article

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

      Jun 10, 2020

      Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
      6 min read

    • Article

      How Sandra Cisneros Found Space To Be 'Barefoot' And 'Rude'

      Jul 27, 2021

      On the latest episode of Code Switch, Cisneros talks about why she became obsessed with houses, what it was like to finally buy one, and—spoiler alert—what it felt like to fall out of love with it.

      7 min read

    • Article

      La Bohème

      Mar 1, 2022

      ON A SATURDAY or Sunday afternoon in the cold early months of 1988, I sat alone at a table for two in a Greenwich Village diner, twenty-four years old, hopelessly young, my notebook open in front of me. At the table next to mine were three people, al

      13 min read

    • Article

      Karl Geary: ‘I Was Writing Out Of Confusion And Horror, Rage And Love’

      Mar 25, 2023

      Before making his literary debut in 2017 with Montpelier Parade, Irish-born novelist Karl Geary spent more than two decades acting and screenwriting, with credits including Coney Island Baby (starring his wife-to-be, Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser), The

      4 min read

    • Article

      Adulting in Motion: The Millions Interviews Emma Straub

      May 1, 2020

      I was working to better understand women in my mother's generation—maybe mothers in all generations—mothers who are further down the road than I am. The post Adulting in Motion: The Millions Interviews Emma Straub appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letter To My Younger Self

      Dec 13, 2021

      Letter To My Younger Self
      3 min read

    • Article

      Flood Is Water

      Aug 16, 2017

      By Kima Jones LATOYA and I have just a few days left in New Orleans before we are to return home to our lives, to our work. We’re here for our annual writing retreat, time we take together each year to work on our novels. We’ve been to Taos, Tuscany,

      6 min read

    • Article

      Linton Kwesi Johnson

      Apr 10, 2023

      Linton Kwesi Johnson
      5 min read

    • Article

      New Wave

      Dec 3, 2021

      New Wave
      10 min read

    • Article

      Corsicana

      Mar 15, 2022

      Corsicana
      11 min read

    • Article

      Ben Okri

      Apr 25, 2022

      Ben Okri
      5 min read

    • Article

      Being Elliot Page

      Jun 2, 2022

      Being Elliot Page
      16 min read

    • Article

      How Postcards From My Mother Helped Me Survive Childhood

      Mar 3, 2017

      For years, my mother wrote to me every day. I’d been sent away to boarding school and for the first weeks was forbidden to call home­. I was eleven. This was just before mobile phones came beeping and clicking into the lives of everyday people. I di

      4 min read

    • Article

      Teaching Poetry in Prison

      Feb 16, 2018

      Teaching Poetry in Prison
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Fiction No. 251

      Mar 15, 2022

      The Art of Fiction No. 251
      20 min read

    • Article

      Penguin Pride.

      Jun 28, 2019

      Penguin Pride.
      16 min read

    • Article

      Al Murray

      Oct 23, 2023

      Al Murray
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Temporary Arrangement

      Oct 2, 2023

      A Temporary Arrangement
      19 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Seven Year Laowai

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Seven Year Laowai - Travis Lee

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1