You can draw the short straw wherever you go to teach in China. Everywhere has bad schools and colleges and universities to teach at. If it's not your fellow Chinese teachers nor the FAO nor the administration department nor the accommodation nor your students, it will likely be foreign grovelling weasels who will be the reason for you getting out of there. The truth is it's damned hard to find a Chinese employer who behaves in a professional manner and knows how to treat his foreign staff. And the foreign desperadoes among the latter can spoil your time there if you hate witnessing grovelling.
As for how Turnoi gets on with his new Chinese university, who can say what will happen? But at least he has the good sense to have money available at short notice to bale him out if things go pear-shaped there, if they haven't already!