Forbidden Voices

Before American Alex Barteau goes to teach English in China, he discovers many forbidden voices in his experiences as a newspaper salesman and later as a part-time teacher at a community college where he is taken to jail along with other protesting teachers. Years after earning his PhD and after teaching at a private college in Atlanta, he is hired to teach at a university in northeast China. Here, ironically, is where his real education begins.

Alex discovers many ex-patriots teaching at th...