July is Discounted Buy a Book month.

Summer discounts and 4th of July sales are getting a new addition to the family- my book , which is 20% off for the entire month of July! If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, now’s a great time to do so. Special Edition Jiujiang: 九江Ÿ Nine Rivers by CS Owsley and Jiujiang: 九江 Nine [...]

Question of University Pay in China Gets a Really Long-winded Answer.

In the last post I laid out the groundwork for an answer to the question; “How’s the pay at a Chinese University?” Today a new blog within this blog begins, Brendan’s Budget Blog, answering that question. Visit, and subscribe if you like, to the BBB feed to watch Brendan, a 23 year old man from Seattle, Washington [...]

Does University Pay in China Support Western Habits?

Public Chinese Universities are funded by the state and therefore offer a sense of security to Foreign experts wanting to come to the country for employment. However, there is a trade off. The pay isn’t the highest offer out there to be had. The scale is commonly set between 4,000 RMB and 5,000 RMB per [...]