I am writing a review of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (aka Jiangxi Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiangxi U of TCM, etc.). Its Chinese name is abbreviated I have taught elsewhere in China before, so I am not evaluating this school without perspective. I have taught in other countries as well.

I have worked here for the fall 2005 semester and now, as per my contract, for the Spring 2006 semester. I will then be happy to leave. I would be happy to answer any specific questions about the place that you have. Below is a brief outline of the good and bad of the place.

Good
New, spacious apartments. Fresh air, for China, as the new campus is outside of the city. A foreign affairs office filled with people who speak English from pretty good to very fluently. Sixteen 40 minute classes per week. This year all teachers have one weekday off, so they teach only four days per week. The students are nice and respectful.

Bad
1) Heat/AC only in your bedroom. Elsewhere in China I had heat in both my bedroom and living room and heat lamps in the bathroom. It goes below freezing sometimes here.
2) You are very isolated from the city. It is a lie to say, as they will, that you are 40 minutes from the city. Because of the reality of the transportation situation and location of your apartment, it will take you TWO HOURS to get from your door to the downtown area. That will include a 20-30 minute walk and two buses, plus waiting time. This is not so for the Chinese staff because they have buses to bring them here in the morning and take them home after work. You literally live in the middle of pig farms. There is nothing here.
3) Sometimes when I ask for things to be fixed they are fixed. Other things simply dont get fixed no how many times I ask.
4) Your phone cannot dial out at all without a phone card. You cant even dial your neighbor without one. To dial another province you need two phone cards.
5) The English department treats you like yesterdays leftovers. The Chinese teachers all know when class will be canceled because of chemistry labs, but you, dumb foreigner, will show up to an empty room. You can ask your classes when their lab is and your students will ask you why you dont know. You can ask both the FAO and the English department to be notified of such things, but you wont be. Other examples exist. This has improved some for the Spring semester only after vociferous and repeated complaining.
6) You live in a fenced compound with guards at the gate. They want everyone to sign in. We got clear agreement from the FAO on more than five separate occasions that this would be changed, but it hasnt truly. They are even more devious liars than my last school. The guards have been mean to the students; this has improved slightly as we have complained numerous times.
7) On average, once a month you will be without power and water for 12 or more hours, sometimes for up to four days in a row like this. Sometimes you will be told in advance, sometimes you will not; sometimes your students will be told and you will not be!
8 The Internet is very slow. You are on the uni LAN. Take note P2P people: this means you are behind a NAT router. The computers the school provides are ^@%$ quality. You cannot write to a CD and you have CRT monitors. No printer is provided. My last school had one and LCDs. Fine, dont expect me to print anything for class.
9) Next year you will see no improvement and much backsliding as the teacher who has been responsible for 98% of the changes here is leaving. He rallied the teachers together to stand up for their rights, and some important changes were made (or agreed to and not yet made as of this writin). No one else wanted to do this and they wont next year. There are three FTs that will likely renew due to their own issues. One other may renew for legitimate personal reasons outside of the university. If youre happy merely taking what you can get, you might love this place.
10) The school has entered teachers apartments without permission or telling them in the past. Teachers have proof of this. The school denies it.
11) Mail can be up to a month and half late here. Thats both domestic and foreign. Thats going by the arrival stamp made by the post office just ten minutes away by car. Thats not one item that was a month and half late. Two weeks late seems to be average. After talking with the university president recently because the FAO told me she didnt think 2 weeks to 1 and 1/2 months late was all that late this has improved slightly. Again, I am saying late, not total time. Where I was last time in China was ten days for international airmail, as it has been to other countries Ive lived in. Here it is 20 days at the quickest. Domestic mail is also delayed and it makes no difference whether the address is written in Chinese or English.
12) Foreign teachers cannot borrow books from the library. When I wrote (and sent) a letter in Chinese to the two head librarians asking them why, it simply went unanswered. I brought this up in a letter to the uni pres and received no reply.
13) Lots of unruly foreign medical students. More next year and currently 24/7 construction immediately adjacent to the where teachers live.
14) Ive certainly forgotten other things I should add, but at this point I think you get the basic idea.

There are worse schools out there I imagine, but there are better ones, too. The school has little understanding of how isolated the teachers are living out in the middle of pig farms. Weve tried to tell them. They just dont give a poop. They have no interest in improving and next year you will be among returnee refugees who are too scared to rock the leaking boat, though even that number is dwindling as folks who originally planned on staying here are now making other plans.

Yes, there is a nice review of the place by a former teacher. He left for medical reasons but he told me he wouldnt likely renew anyway due to things going downhill.

Youre welcome to email me at jutcm2006@yahoo.com
I will check this only periodically, so my reply may not be quick but I will reply to you.