hopefully with lots of Brits, they're more fun and less back-biting than other FT's.

I am not so sure anymore. I have met a couple of brits lately who are greedy, selfish and only in China for what is in it for them.

What you say can be applied to all FT's equally.

Keep your head down.

Sorry, do not agree. Will not ignore flaunting of bilingual non smoking signs, all chinese teachers being given a notebook for in class use, while I have neither that or a textbook to use at the public middle school I currently work at. Also slippery tile floors with no warning signs. If you keep your head down with the Chinese they will walk all over you like a doormat, nothing more certain.