Three Years in Nanjing - Paperback

by Derek Redfern (Author)

Three Years in Nanjing is a photographic record of what Derek H. Redfern and his wife experienced whilst teaching and living in the former capital city of China. It tells the story of the changes in lifestyle that two middle-aged expatriate British teachers had whilst embarking on a new and exciting adventure in a very different culture to the one they were used to.

Author Biography

Derek H Redfern was born in Gateshead in the North East of England, which makes him a proud Geordie. He spent several years working in sales environments after leaving school, eventually becoming the Marketing Director of a small wholesale business supplying the picture framing trade. Having got bored of sales, he trained to become a secondary school teacher, qualifying in 1999. Over the next 19 years he would teach in an Inner London school, a small market town school, University level and in private schools in China, Greece and Spain. He now lives in Whitby in North Yorkshire where he and his wife run a small picture framing business.