A weeknight in the life of an English teacher in China

Rockstardom. Photo: Riddi©ulus IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, that you’re teaching English in China. Imagine that one of your university students invites you to her English talent show one night and you decide to attend. You walk into a giant auditorium where it turns out you will not be part of the audience but are instead a celebrity judge with a name tag and a seat of honor up front, and you are given judging criteria and are expected to deliver comments and score the contestants on a var…