Anji in Zhejiang province, China. Megan Eaves lived in the small town, where she worked as an English teacher, in 2006, an experience that sparked a lifelong love of China. Photo: Megan Eaves
Anji in Zhejiang province, China. Megan Eaves lived in the small town, where she worked as an English teacher, in 2006, an experience that sparked a lifelong love of China. Photo: Megan Eaves

The small town that sparked a lifelong love of China: memories of teaching English in Anji, Zhejiang, where Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was filmed

  • Before she was Lonely Planet’s China editor, Megan Eaves lived in Anji, a small town far from any tourist trail, where she worked as an English teacher in 2006
  • ‘Small towns are wonderful everywhere … but I’ve never felt so connected to a community as while living in small-town China,’ she writes

Anji in Zhejiang province, China. Megan Eaves lived in the small town, where she worked as an English teacher, in 2006, an experience that sparked a lifelong love of China. Photo: Megan Eaves
Anji in Zhejiang province, China. Megan Eaves lived in the small town, where she worked as an English teacher, in 2006, an experience that sparked a lifelong love of China. Photo: Megan Eaves
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