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  Jishou City and surrounding area, Hunan Province, China Photo Gallery by John Amato at pbase.com
Jishou City and surrounding area, Hunan Province, China Photo Gallery by John Amato at pbase.com
Jishou City and surrounding area, Hunan Province, China
Jishou City, main river that flows through and around the city.
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  Great Stories from travelers around the globe
Jishou is visited, usually, by just two foreigners in a year, the two teachers who instruct the university's English majors in their language classes.
Jishou belonged to my longtime friend, Hamish Dewe, for a full year's contract - at times, I considered myself an interloper who was trespassing on his territory, where he had taken pains to carve out a niche in a difficult place.
Jishou was mildly temperate in the springtime, the sun invitingly warm and the grass by the lake comfortably blanketing the soft soil.
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 Jishou Schools
Jishou city is the capital of the Tu and Miao Minorities Autonomous Region, which has an annual per capita income of $300 (US).
The school takes leadership seriously and stresses moral character for all of our students.Four students from the school came to Punahou school for short term studies and one teacher came to the East West Center for training.
Jishou Teachers' College is the most important education institute to train village teachers in West Hunan.
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 Jishou Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Hunan's Xiang Xi, the Miao ethnic minority's semi-autonomous region, Jishou is a small city with a large and growing university, which resonates with the heaviness of miles of surrounding lonely farmland and which is a hive of students, peasants, and a new class of entrepreneurs trying to make something modern of a remote town.
Jishou is inescapably distant to the world and to the new China, and yet is still quite clearly under its influence.
Yet this is not to say that Jishou is hopeless; indeed it is the rising star of the region, and since the visitation of Chinese premier Zhu Rongji during the time I was staying there, it has undergone rapid redecoratation.
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 Old Jishou
Jishou University's social was without the underage drinking and smoking of Auckland school dances, and with more of a sense of fun.
Her attention was a nuisance to Bonnie who was embarrassed at the unchecked enthusiasm of a fellow female student, and I hadn't given it much thought, although did often chat with her at the English corners I attended.
Jishou university is just a little way out of the city centre, and is built on relatively undeveloped farmland; in fact, plots of land within the campus grounds were still being planted and kept by farmers living in stone dwellings that the university has perhaps been constructed around.
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 Zhangjiajie city, and Jishou city,Hunan province,China - English job offered *Picture*
Founded in September 1958, Jishou University is a provincial-level university in the western part of Hunan Province.
The university is located in Jishou City, which is the capital of Tujia and Miao Nationalities Autonomous Prefecture of Western Hunan.
Jishou University also employs overseas teachers, as well as inviting well-known scholars from both within China and abroad to be Visiting Professors.
www.eslteachersboard.com /cgi-bin/China/index.pl?read=21224   (528 words)

  
 China Province - Region, Regional
Jishou is in the northwest of Hunan Province, at the eastern foot of Wuling Mountain.
It is about 15 km west of Jishou and is surrounded by precipitous mountains.
It is about 24 km from the western suburb of Jishou and is home to the Miao minority.
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 志愿者
The Jishou English Summer Camp has been set up by Jishou University and Jishou Number One High School to improve the English levels of minority and poor students in the Jishou area while helping foreign volunteers to improve their knowledge of Chinese language and culture (calligraphy, art, and music).
Jishou, with close to 300,000 inhabitants, is the capital of the Autonomous Region west of Hunan.
The Jishou schools will provide emergency medical care as they do for their local teachers.
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 Living in Jishou   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elsewhere in town whorehouses are uninspiringly disguised as hairdressers with interiors bathed in pink neon light, where the more luckless and desperate daughters of poverty kick their cross-legged thighs hopelessly on old couches.
On some evenings, as the sun was beginning to set over Jishou, Hamish and I would walk out of the campus and stroll towards the less populated areas of town.
Jishou, and moreover Xiang Xi County, is above all else a community of peasant farmers, and their old homes lining Jishou's back roads preserve a China lost to larger cities, and often lost to China's overseas visitors who find their 'authentic China' in the stylised Qing-Period false roofs of Beijing's and Shanghai's restaurants.
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 Easter - Trapped in China - BootsnAll Travelogues
We headed to Jishou in western Hunan to meet up with the American friends we met in Chengdu during the winter holidays.
Jishou is much bigger than Qingtian but still just as dirty and like most Chinese towns/cities.
Jishou is set around mountains and Judy took us to a small touristy town called Feng Huang.
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 Summer of Service
Jishou now seems to linger in the realm of my mind between dream and reality.
They remind me of the 150 faces we left as we drove off in the bus to the train station and they remind me of the wonderful people on the other side of the world who have touched me, touched the other teachers, and, I hope, have touched everyone who has been reading this blog.
With our last week in Jishou filled with good-byes, final ceremonies, last minute pictures, and efforts to take in every possible minute of what had become our daily routines in China, there wasn't really much time to blog.
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 Raiha and The Uruha Jyusshinshuu
When Kurei's mother, Tsukino was in the throes of death from the bomb Mori Kouran planted, Raiha unsealed the raijin and saved her.
Though Jishou didn't have too much of an exposure, as he was killed during the semi-finals of the Ura Buto Satsoujin by Magensha.
Jishou trained together with Raiha and Neon in the early days of the Uruha.
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 Jishou Teacher's College | Contract
Party A The Teachers' College of Jishou University wishes to engage the service of Party B ­­­(name of foreign teacher).
The two parties, in a spirit of friendly cooperation, agree to sign this contract and pledge to fulfill conscientiously all the obligations stipulated in it.
This contract is signed at ___________, in duplicate, this ____day of ________, 200__, in the Chinese and English languages, both texts being equally authentic.
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 China - Autumn 1996 - part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jishou was waking up slowly as we arrived, the first fires were being kindled, and the atmosphere was distinctly smoky.
They had had no more rain, but had gone a very long way (20 to 25 kilometres) in very muddy conditions and stopped for lunch at a Miao village and were back just before dark at about 7 pm.
Jishou was also much as I remembered, a big city, but long and narrow as it lies in a river valley.
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 Old Jishou - Hunan: Travel Reviews - China Travel Community
An ornate marble bridge similar in style to the university's spanned the river that divided Jishou new from Jishou old.
Southern houses tend to breathe the warmer air, and the terraces on the upper stories of these houses in old Jishou were decorated in fine woodwork like lace, letting through the cool breeze.
We'd seen it from the park; when compared to the other temples I'd visited in Jishou, it was a brute of a thing, however it was a temple that was clearly in greater service than either of the other two, which would seem to have been just as likely to attract tourists as devotees.
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 Teach English in China - Your ESL Hookup
If you are interested in teaching in Jishou University and are a native English speaker, please email your Resume, Recent photo.
Jishou University was founded in September 1958, which is a provincial-level university in the western part of Hunan Province.
The University has two campuses located in both Jishou City and Zhang Jiajie City, occupying an area of 70 hectares.
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 Special Region
K92: Jishou 20:38 - Zhangjiajie 22:43 - Shanghai West 21:10*
N704 Huaihua 10:20 - Jishou 12:12 - Zhangjiajie 14:30 - Guangzhou 05:00* - Shenzheng 08:07*
Tongren > Fanjing Shan > Yanhe > Gongtan > Youyang > Longtan > Jishou > Zhangjiajie.
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 Leading online travel service in China specialized in discounted air ticket and hotel reservation.
From Beijing to Jishou: Train K267 The train starts at 12:58 am from Beijing and arrives at Jishou at 14:57.
From Guangzhou to Jishou: Train K503/502 The train starts at 12:55 from North Guangzhou Station and arrives at Jishou the next day at 7:12 am.
From Shanghai to Jishou: Train 1607/1606 The train starts at 12:20 from the west station of Shanghai, and arrives at Jishou at 15:32 the next day.
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 My Trip to China in 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There we were greeted by officials from Jishou University.
For the next four days, both Dr. Zhou, his wife and I were the guests of Jishou University.
Now students from Jishou showed me a bit of the nightlife in this small town of 200,000 people.
people.deas.harvard.edu /~jax/travel/china   (562 words)

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