Eroshenko in China. Part One

Eroshenko also began immediately to teach at the Esperanto school which had been founded the previous year and, no doubt, the mere fact that he was a Westerner was enough to make his classes much more attractive to the inhabitants of Shanghai. European teachers of English-language classes are in great demand in Asia even today (in fact, not long ago, the teacher's own inadequate knowledge of the English language, or his lack of teaching skills and experience, did not seem to matter to some of the more notorious language schools) and it is probable that the situation was very similar in 1921.

Of course, because Eroshenko was both a fluent Esperanto-speaker and, by now, an experienced and very talented teacher, he succeeded in retaining many of the students who initially enrolled out of curiosity, and his classes continued to be popular and to attract new students.

Indeed, as far as the Shanghai Esperanto Association was concerned, they turned out to be TOO popular and we will see why in my next article.

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