Jiangshan

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Jiangshan (江山, pinyin jiang1 shan1) is a city located in Quzhou prefecture, Zhejiang Province, China. Located about 4 hours southwest of Hangzhou, the provincial capital, it is the only county-level city in the prefecture. [1] Jiangshan is considered small by Chinese standards; its population is somewhere in the hundreds of thousands rather than the millions. The city is named aptly: Jiang means river and Shan means mountain; a river runs through the city and Jiangling Mountain sits on its border. [2]

Among the handful of schools in Jiangshan is Jiangshan Experimental Primary School, which is part of Zhejiang University's Global TEFL network. The program sends native English speakers to their network schools to teach English for periods of 2-4 weeks.[3] Aside from these teachers, Jiangshan sees few Westerners because of its relative geographical obscurity.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quzhou
  2. ^ Zhejiang
  3. ^ About « An American in Jiangshan