Hello Turnoi
Well, I've had "do as the Romans do" and "remember you're in China now" levelled at me for objecting about them not adhering to my contract and other grievances that should be unrelated to cultural differences. On the other hand they will wave the contract at you yue kuai yue hao (pretty quickly)- so, what's good for the goose ain't good for the gander seems to be part of the culture; therefore, I have no intentions of fitting in with all Chinese culture. Having said that, newcomers should be advised to expect some degree of deception and not sticking to their word wherever they go in China- they will have to live with that.

Doors of the teaching compound (never mentioned in contract) locked at 10-30 is intolerable. I had that at a university I worked for. I played hard ball and threatened to walk and they relented.

You seem like a proper teacher, Turnoi (like many I'm not) so it must have been frustrating for you teaching in China. My last job, they told me to teach writing... now, I don't know how one can do that without making sure they know the differences between parenthesis and braces and so on. After a while the students rebelled (22 year old university students) The leaders came down on me and said I was boring and a bad teacher. I changed the lesson plans to include Mr Bean etc..- sat down and did nothing. The students were happy as were the leaders. I accepted things and got no further hassle. During that period of controversy I put it to a leader that if I sat down throughout the lesson drinking Baijiu and chani smoking, yet the students were happy, would that be okay with you- In a rare moment of honesty he replied YES.