I got an email from hxenglish04@163.com offering me a job. I talked to Thomas from the other email listed. He spoke to me on MSN messenger and told me they are actively looking for many many teachers ASAP. I mentioned to him the remarks being said about his company online and he never replied back to me. I decided to have some fun with them and pretended to be interested anyways. He made arrangements to pick me up from the Jinan train station this morning. Of course I didn't show up and after his office spent the day looking for me I told him they are a bunch of scumbags who give Chinese schools a bad name. Thomas told me a different name of the company though, I know its the same company because I got two word documents from him. The first said Shandong Provisional Modern School Culture Institute, the second said Foreign Language Teaching Reaching Center, Shandong Province, China.. They are also looking to hire nonnative speakers also. Hope this helps. He wanted me to work in either Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Hunan, Liaolning or Shandong.

Thomas' Phone number is 861380053150. He gave me the address of his office too, but I don't read Chinese... He did say 86971206 was the room number though.

AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COSTS

-CINDY ZHANG
-DALE SHENG
-MR YIN (THE OWNER)

Be especially careful of CINDY ZHANG.
She will constantly remind you that she is your "friend" and ask to borrow money from you that will not be returned.

They are crooks and purposely withheld my last month's salary because they knew my visa would be expiring and that I had to return to America. They also forced me to do a demonstration for other teachers in Jinan on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day without choice and did not pay for it. Cindy Zhang never reimbursed me for my completely bogus visa "tourist extension" either. They lie about everything, I cannot make that more clear.

-They do NOT offer anything other than Tourist L/M visas
-They are NOT contactable while you are in China
-They do NOT reimburse you for medical exams/visas/etc.
-They do NOT help you at your school -- even if you are the only English-speaking teacher at a poor rural high school. You are left on your own to negotiate, which is pretty hard if you don't know how to scream in Chinese.
-They do NOT have a real office. When I went to the demonstration to give a model class, the "Cultural Institute" was just a sign nailed to a steel wall on the Jinan traffic police.
-They WILL ask for money and not return it.

That's the gist of it all.

-Justin S.

I also have had issues with this company. They continually give excuses and lies for why I was not paid correctly, also the other foreign teacher had the same problems. There were two of us at the same school. The company provided terrible books for the students and did not pay us for the visas they told us they would. Originally Tom Pei was the person who recruited us, I knew something was fishy with this company when he asked me to pay him 1000rmb for "giving me the position." Obviously I didn't and shortly after that he stopped working for the company, I assumed he was fired. Cindy Zhang had taken offer his position but she never answers questions and does not try to help you. I had issues with my VISA and she told me just do what it takes to fix it and the company would reimburse me. However I never received the money. They continued to say next term we will pay you.

I believe their company does not have the money to take the teachers and is waiting until they receive income from the schools to pay past debts. It is only a matter of time before this company comes crashing down. I think many other teachers have experienced this with this company. I urge you not to work with them and not to believe a word they say. They will employ you on a F Visa that does not allow you to work legally in the country. For this you could jeopardize your right to stay in China and make it more difficult to return.

This company is a group of thieves and liars under the same roof. DO NOT TRUST THEM, and DO NOT WORK WITH THEM.

Or International Volunteers Foreign Teachers of Harmony English Teaching Experimental Research Center

They are actively searching for many new teachers on this site and others to replace all the teachers they didn't pay last semester. They look for native English speakers, promise them to change their visas into Z visas when they enter China. Then they come up with excuses to put it off until your original visa is about to expire. Then they tell you its your responsibility to get your visa renewed, and they charge you a ridiculous amount of money for it. They were charging teachers 3,000rmb for a one month L visa extension, (which they told every one of us it would be a 6 month F visa). They tell you they will pay you back but they don't. This is going on with every single teacher I know that has worked with this company (7 that I know of at this time). They are actively recruiting from this site from the email of hxenglish04@163.com and yousuowei_516@hotmail.com. Since posting about them online I have heard nothing good about them and have met many people who have had worse experiences than me with this company.

They are a book company based in Jinan. The contracts are signed by a Henry Zong. Cindy Zheng, Tom Pei, Thomas Long, and Dale Sheng are known recruiters for this company.

Their website is http://www.xxwhyjs.cn/index.asp They never told me the website, so I doubt they will show anyone else. They like to keep things secret from the teachers. When I discovered who owned the company their was panic whenever I mentioned his name, Xu FuYuan (许福源). They even accused other people who work for them for telling me who owned the company. They had over 30 foreign teachers working for them last semester and are looking for replacements now.

Other emails too look out for are:
tompei456@gmail.com
hxenglish01@163.com
hxenglish02@163.com
hxenglish03@163.com
wenhuaenglish@gmail.com
cindyzhang1212@yahoo.com.cn
xxwhyjs@163.com