Just to say that I had a lucky escape by not going there to teach. A few years ago, I had a problem at a school I was teaching at in Hebei province re bait and switch tactics. I had gone on strike there, and had contacted my agent to find me another school. On the Friday, I was in my apartment with my bags packed waiting to depart for Linyi Normal University the following day when the school leaders knocked at the door. They had brought peace offerings of two bottles of Chinese liquor and a carton of fairly expensive Chinese cigarettes, and a contract for me to sign. Seemingly, they'd been trying unsuccessfully to schedule foreign teachers at another school in that one-horse town to do my classes. As the contract gave me what I had originally agreed, I signed it, and stayed there, instead of switching to Yishui. I was sorely tempted to do so to leave them in the mire, but just as well I didn't. Seems I made the right choice, more by accident than design. I could have jumped from the frying pan into the fire if I'd left there for Yishui.