i'll echo KJK's words and the fact that many chinese employers' contractual agreements must be re-written. we shouldn't buy into their "trust" and all other kinda bullsh*t. according to paul, we should just sing the unpro and one-sided contracts just because we are great teachers and the farce clauses in will not apply to us. paul, with all due respect to ya, would you sign your death penalty that'd be based on the opinions and decisions of a bunch of law students??? just imagine there's your ex in that class.:)

paul, no disrespect but i've been offer a sh*tload of contracts in past few days and none of them remotely resembled the actually standard foreign expert contracual agreement in china. not that the SAFEA contract's a real pro one, but at least it has attempted to protect both parties. just imagine you fly 1000s of miles to a country where after a short while you're told you're not good 'casue your eyes aren't blue enough and students want the eyes and the hair of a different color than yours.

cheers and beers to the 20 million blond blue eyed canadians that kiko from chongqing's meten company has been dreaming about :lol