Robert, while you are shocked to read these posts, I am thrilled to have read your post on. Your and my experiences seem to have some similarities. As a coordinator, have you recruited, trained and evaluated your foreign staff? Have you written the books/book for your school or for bookshops. If you went through a publisher, was it on mainland? On mainland, I also wrote books, course books for a school that I opened once, and I managed or shall i say "coordinated" academics as well. To me, don't be shocked, it was not worth it. I was too naive to have made my poor choices. I trusted the foreign companies/franchisors that ran the foreign academic products, products that often were compromised by local greed and unethical behaviors. I trusted the locals' advertising of the country as open to foreign investment and ideas. Too bad that I tripped over the field of education which is so tightly controlled by locals. Too bad that I tripped over their ambiguous regulations that often protect rich or powerful ones rather than the creative and hardworking ones.

On topic, local employers and recruiters do deserve attention of forums, don't they? If we do not provide our views or experiences on, any applicant for these often misleading and sometimes unreasonable positions will have a load of work to find anything on the place.

At 45, I am sure not as experienced as you are at 68. I don't doubt you have had some great experiences at the University there, however, and with all due respect, it is reasonable to question your views on the topic, isn't it? How do you make both ends meet in the country? And, how do you support your legal status in? Forgive me if I missed something in your post and if any of this has been already answered there. If you aren't in China, I deeply appologize for my last couple of questions.

Cheers and beers to our experiences and opinions about the country