It does appear by the sound of it you have been shafted somewhere along the line

Incorrect.

I am fine. My passport and visa and FEC are in my possession, I am paid on time, and I do not have to vacate my apartment for police inspections. My friends, acquaintances and fellow co-workers at Yuncheng English Village are the ones who are currently being shafted and some at other schools not hired through Yuncheng EV were shafted as well. Xinjiang (not the province a small town west of Houma) let go all direct hires last year. They do not want foreign teachers any longer.

The current state of affairs is unacceptable. Police inspections, surveillance, the constant monitoring by locals (which requires a degree of Putonghua fluency to be aware of), passport seizure, passports held, hiding from the police, moving out of their apt, and so on.

I haven't experienced anything like what you have suggested is becoming endemic.

Well then let's use Maths. You are one person. I know of at least 6 being treated as I report.

6 is larger than 1 last time I checked.

A 16% chance of being treated well, or a 63% chance of passport seizure and the lot of it.

I just wish you would be more factual.

Pardon? I have posted detailed facts. You ask for a huge burden of proof upon others, yet do not reciprocate.

Talk with the teachers in town, ask them. Go to HK or CI and they will show up eventually.