I tend to agree.

The key to a successful teaching experience abroad is going with an open mind and ability to adapt to the local ways. If you aren't getting what you were promised in a contract, you are much more likely to get it by doing your job and politely insisting, while showing deference to your superiors. Get your employers to like you and appreciate having you, and you're more likely to get what you were promised. Demand what you're owed and complain when you don't get it, you're more likely to be ignored. If you're not willing to accept that you're working in a different business culture, you probably shouldn't have decided to teach in China. I'm not saying that employees should put up with being mistreated and lied to, quite the contrary, I'm just saying that the employee is more likely to get what he or she is deserved by asking for it the right way. It works for me.