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The China Teaching Contract Handbook

Everything we verified, in one printable PDF. 16 traps, 22 real cases with their source posts, and a one-page checklist to take to the table.

What's inside

Holiday months pay much less (or nothing)
They keep your original documents
Salary split across multiple contracts
Social insurance quietly not paid
Illegal exit fines used to trap you
Work permit cancellation held hostage
Agency fees clawed back on exit
Work done, never paid
Pay deducted for lateness and 'performance'
Role changed after your visa was issued
A different contract on arrival
An abandoned permit application can lock your passport number
Probation extended again and again at low pay
Brought in on the wrong visa
The offer gets smaller while you wait
'Free' TEFL certificates that cost you later

Plus

A printable one-page checklist (16 items)
Appendix: 17 hand-checked salary records
What to do if it goes wrong
13 pages, PDF, yours to keep

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Why trust this

Every quote in the handbook is a real post, and the live version of every claim is on this site with a link you can open. We also withdrew a set of statistics we had published because our method for producing them did not hold up — you can read about that here.

What this is not. Not legal advice and not a statistical survey. It is a record of what teachers reported in public forums, read and checked by hand. Sample sizes are small and stated.

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Compiled from public teacher discussions · every figure sourced
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