Due dilligence on these boards and the search function would have been your friend.

As for the here and now, you better have a plan b. If it is the uni in Zhanjiang, and I think it is, expect to hear nothing and be left in Guangzhou. I'd get applying in Guangzhou and elsewhere in China if I were you, the FAO at that uni CANNOT be trusted!----
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Everything seems to be primed to bring out all the experts, unleash the hounds. Newbie to China. Why he or she is booked into a hotel for three weeks, I can't get my head around. Being ignored by an employer who fortuitously turns out to be infamous according to the experts. The nice little finishing touch(so far) is that he has arrived with a tourist visa. All a bit reminiscent of the 'Romeo" post which caused such an uproar. Totally different topic of course.