{"id":31244,"date":"2015-05-05T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31244"},"modified":"2015-05-04T22:41:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T02:41:46","slug":"interesting-jobs-for-foreigners-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/interesting-jobs-for-foreigners-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting jobs for foreigners in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a few friends over the years who seemed to somehow be able to spend extended time in China. This article<\/a> may explain how at least a few of them funded their stays:<\/p>\n

In 2010, Mitch Moxley wrote a story for The Atlantic<\/em> entitled \u201cRent a White Guy,\u201d relating the story of his trip to Dongying where he pretended to be the representative of a non-existent California-based company that was allegedly building a factory in the city. His Canadian friend Ernie, hired to play the role of director, delivered a speech before a large crowd in which he \u201cboasted about the company\u2019s long list of international clients.\u201d After the speech, \u201cconfetti blasted over the stage, fireworks popped [\u2026] and Ernie posed for a photo with the mayor.\u201d The article has nothing to say about the extent of the scam. Were Mitch Moxley and his friend Ernie giving a boost to a local company or were the attendees being asked to invest in a company that didn\u2019t exist?<\/p>\n

A 2010 CNN<\/em> report cited one ad posted on The Beijinger<\/em> by a company called \u201cRent A Foreigner.\u201d The story describes one foreigner who had police knock on his door one day, \u201cafter a financial company he worked at for a couple of months in Xi\u2019an [\u2026] allegedly swindled millions of yuan out of clients.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s commonplace in China to see expats paid exorbitant fees as dancers, singers, musicians, or models, often regardless of talent. I have seen unattractive models, dancers who couldn\u2019t dance, and singers who couldn\u2019t sing. One of my friends was once paid handsomely to play bass at a live concert. The thing was, he didn\u2019t know how to play bass \u2014 so they left his instrument unplugged and he plucked at the strings as if he had some clue as to what he was doing. Several of the musicians were also pantomiming to a prerecorded track, but the track had no bass, so my friend was pretending to play a part that didn\u2019t exist. No one in the crowd seemed to notice though, and he was paid more than twice what the Chinese band members, who were actually rather talented musicians, earned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a few friends over the years who seemed to somehow be able to spend extended time in China. This article may explain how at least a few of them funded their stays: In 2010, Mitch Moxley wrote a story for The Atlantic entitled \u201cRent a White Guy,\u201d relating the story of his trip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,22],"tags":[343,262,95,428],"class_list":["post-31244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-culture","tag-jobs","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-87W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31245,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31244\/revisions\/31245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}