I hope you will know sooner rather than later if you can get that woman you are looking for Sboy. I wouldn't advise on wasting too much time in china though. There was an incident I heard from a close personal contact in china about how at a Chinese Carrefour they attempted to make a 70 year old woman "check in" her walking stick before she went in! The level of service just keeps on getting worse and worse, and it can really really wear your spirit out. Even the most resiliient, most open minded souls can experience a "death" of the mind when working at a country like China. You need to kick back and get a change of scenery. I don't know how you had the patience to last as long as you did there in the first place, maybe because it was mainly at the public gigs.

Let's hope the good people return to these forums sooner rather than later.