I do actually know of a 21 year old student who is doing very well because she has been sponsored by a 60 year old Englishman over the last year. She has no family and a very tragic story about what happened to them. He gets what he want but so does she, ranging from school books to laptops. He also deposits 1000 RMB in her bank every month when he gets paid. Her English has dramatically improved since they've been co-operating. She has even past her driving test and next term he will buy her a car. Now what about the icing on the cake? She flies out to England with him in the next couple of days and will be warmly welcomed by the Englishman's wife.(I think she[the wife] thinks she is just a poor orphan and hubby is being his usual altruistic self.) They will both return together ready for the next semester.

As you say though it's a piece of cake for even an ugly teacher to get himself a fair pair of legs in China, It would not do me though, after one of my colleagues was badly beaten by a girl's family. I still hear about him, he spends a lot of his time in a South African Mental Health Hospital these days; unable to come to terms with losing parts of his anatomy.