If that's your pic in the avatar J ... hmmm, good luck.

Bahaahahahaha

Jeff, you stupid c**t, with that crappy English and your Chinese face, you'll never get a decent job.

I can just see you turning up for the job interview.

"What? You said you were British...?"

"I am British man. My English pretty good."

"Get the f*** out of here."

Also, sorry Jeff but you're really asking for it here, based on your photo, I think you've got a touch of Down's.

with your Vietnamese face, and your name, I am sorry man you won't get anything here, oops! I mean your Chinese face. why?? im glad you ask; try to picture, a Chinese-face with a British Accent, or even worse a Chinese face with a Scottish accent.
Good luck though!

oh, and you look like a girl, so you might be ok.

Sadly, you're unlikely to find a decent job teaching English. Most schools would sooner hire a caucasian even if English is their second or third language. I've seen Eastern European "English teachers" who probably couldn't get through an episode of Teletubbies without a translator, but they're making decent coin (at least enough to piss away their brain cells in SanLiTun nightly). A friend of mine is a Chinese American who was born in the US and had a Masters from Harvard...nobody wanted to hire him as a teacher, even though he had degrees in education and linguistics. Go figure.

Good luck.

I never said you looked like fit bird.

Seriously though, I know plenty of ABCs and BBCs that found decent gigs as teachers. One girl I know is a BBC from London, and she's a DoS here, but she's an adult, whereas you look rather young and inexperienced which will also go against you.

Holaboo, where are those photos of you and Jackie Chan?

Seperated at birth ...

holaboo tried to rape Jackie Chan which is what led to the "Chinese people must be controlled" comment.

Hi, here my suggestions:
1 if you are a british citizen, the first thing you need to do is to get a chinese visa, tourist visa is easy to get, but only can let you stay in China for 1 month. If you want to do a business visa, you need to have a business invitation letter;
2 you don't need to decide what kind of job you need, actually it is up the employer. you can do a part time job first, and if there is any chance later, you can get a full time job, if the employer is good enough, they can help you get a working visa, which can allow you stay in china for a whole year.
3 now the government policy is strict, all the foreigners now iin China without working visa, only can stay in China to September 15.
hope these information can help you.

you can contact me directly:
huzhoushenjing000@yahoo.cn

theres a good and bad side to having an asian face in china
finding a legitimate job = hard as fck especially teaching english.

Heres one way to do it:

do it grassroot style-
you go door to door handing + handing out flyers or business cards at your gongyu. important to meet face to face and also have some chinese phrases ready for selling

differentiate your self -
"british english" - sell it as the premium form of english.
have a course plan and english material ready
I am assuming you speak a little chinese - sell our ability to explain some stuff in chinese.

classes:
sell 1 to 1 classes (at around 100rmb; u need to undercut the usual crowd)
sell 5 person class (same level - best to elementry crowd at 30 rmb per head). This can be hard as parents love to come and see how you teach

I did somethign similiar when I was a student here...but i got lazy and didn't go through with it. It worked quite reasonably
and i am assuming it would work quite well if i continue to market the whole building.

As for visa - just fly w/ student visa via a cheap chinese school. - usually around 2-4k per half year.

living cost: find a cheap place to stay for around 1-2k - share w/ someone

best of luck to you
beijing is an awesome place

good side: since you look Asian, they'll no doubt take you for a Chinese (all Asians look Chinese, right?), and this is good news because Chinese-looking foreigners are better able to understand China (makes perfect sense right?). Before you know it, you'll be fully accepted (well, almost), so this is good. Yet sadly, your chances of landing a teaching gig here are gonna be about as good as that of an inbred drunken Canadian guy successfully passing on the swine flu to a pen full of hogs by fondling and rolling around with em (OK, maybe some mouth to mouth too). Hey, maybe there is a chance for you after all.

bad side: you'll be required to join a spur of the moment anti-Japanese outburst directed at a sushi restaurant (doesn't matter if it's Chinese owned) and at Japanese cars (again, doesn't matter if they're Chinese owned).

In closing, I agree with the carrot-gnawing rodent that Beijing is an awesome place, unless of course you're a Mexican tourist.

Dude, gotta love the fog too.