I feel sorry for your experience, but I were in that school for around one year, I mean as a student. I was born in Guiyang and grew up there. they are just a little bit silly since guiyang is one of poorest cities in China, people there just don't have enough money and chance to take a look outside world. the students and professors there are actually nice, but since you are an outsider, so they probably just won't show their friendly. I hope something good happened when you were there, and can leave you a good impression. For steal, I guess everywhere have that problem, you should know how to protect yourself in China. I am in the U.S. now,and my credit cards and bank cards were stole from my apartment for three times, total around five thousands. lucky bank covered them. So, the only thing I can say is protect your properties by yourself no matter where you are. you probably can go shanghai and take a look. I spent my middle and high school there, my second hometown, big and nice city. good luck on your ESL journey.