Hi Maricel
I just wanted to add here that your air ticket should be tax-free. Yes go to the tax department and complain and also go to the Department of Foreign Experts and PSB and report the school to them too. Most of these schools do not pay your taxes although they do take the tax money off your salary every month each month. Don't you just hate the sudden disappearance of the payroll person when it is pay week! A friend of mine once taught at a uni in Xian and his apartment was a combination storage locker for the uni and a mold chamber! He had no room in his apartment due to all the old broken furniture that the uni was storing there and the paint was peeling off the walls and the walls were covered with mold. What a lovely place!
We are given all sorts of hoops to jump through to please the head masters while they fail to toe the line on their part of the contracts that we sign with them.
I am glad to hear that you have moved on there and this is about one of the few things that you can do in your defense. There are some decent schools there in China but they are well kept secrets.