Publisher's Synopsis
Growing up in a rural town in the United States, the author decided to live and work in Taiwan after graduating university.
Always a Painted Smile is a true and gripping tale detailing Wang's personal experience while in the highly-profitable ESL industry. Not holding back, Wang candidly shares his thoughts on the industry, detailing such events as having a fake classroom set up in his apartment to show inspection officers, giving children writing lessons in a bathroom, and watching as a hapless lad got locked in a storage closet. While the tales told in Always a Painted Smile belong solely to Wang, who had experienced them, sadly elements from this narrative are all-too common in the English-learning industry. At the end of the book, Wang also shares his own thoughts as to what needs to be done to clean up this industry.
