General self-efficacy, measured by a 10-item scale, is a widely used construct in cross-cultural research. The present paper describes a Chinese adaptation of the scale. Within a sample of 293 university students, the internal consistency was .91. The scale had also been completed by a bilingual sample of 43 Chinese students who filled out the English as well as three weeks later the Chinese version. The lagged correlation between both versions was .71. Further psychometric properties are described that underscore the usefulness of the inventory. It was found that men scored on average higher in general self-efficacy than women which is in line with results from previous samples. Preliminary norms are given to encourage further field testing of this scale.