2/ When with your wife, you can stay in cheaper hotels that are licenced to accept Chinese only.
3/ Some Chinese EFL employers prefer hiring foreigners with Chinese wives rather than single foreign men.
4/ Less chance of your employer trying to cheat because he (or she) is aware your wife is with you.

Thanks for the reply, quite detailed.

I'd just like to dissect the three points from your post above, if I may.

2.That seems a little unfair to single/unmarried FT's. I've come across that crap before where because I am a foreigner I "apparently" can't stay at the odd hotel, yet when a Chinese friend has used their ID card the room magically becomes "available" where previously there was none available/or only some at a higher rate. I often wonder if this is the same kind of thing as the supposedly defunct but still very much in existence dual pricing system?!

3.I agree on this part, they may be less inclined to be a "gear head" or "piss head" if they are happily married, and so less trouble for the school.

4.True, although I think that even if you marry a Chinese woman, you will still always be a foreigner in the eyes of other chinese, no matter how long you have been married etc etc. I'd agree that if your wife is in earshot they can't pull any crap that they might otherwise be able to get away with.

Merry Christmas
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