''You can be damn sure the Chinese will use some dirt about you, or some perceived flaw, to their gain...so I say play equally dirty, don't be afraid to go down into the gutters just like they will, it's trench warfare, even just being a humble teacher in China...sadly"

I'm sure you are actually referring to the Chinese that have had the biggest influence on your life in China, the people who run and work in these sub-stand outfits, like York school-thoroughly bad scum of the earth types; however, most of the population I find belong to salt of the earth types. One of the reasons I travel by train in China is that i really enjoy talking to the ordinary folk, thoroughly nice well-rounded people who will give you the shirt off their back- not tricky or underhand in any way, like the York School mobsters. Their food tastes like shite but they are okay. Let the train take the strain-good for chatting up university studentesses to boot. No if you get out there and talk to ordinary folk, even migrant works, it'll make your Chinese experience much richer.

You mustn't let York School type vultures cloud your view of the Chinese.