Plenty of people are doing things of questionable legality in China and not getting in trouble, the government may or may not turn a blind eye depending of the issue, and of whether you’re Chinese or a foreigner (a common complaint of foreigners trying to start businesses in China is having to deal with regulations that their local competitors don’t seem to comply with). Selling drugs to kids would be an extremely stupid move, but as far as I know the government used to close it’s eyes to foreigners selling drugs to each other (though that was pre-olympics, I wouldn’t be surprised if they cleaned things up since then).
Selling English tutoring to kids shouldn’t be that risky (unless you’re sleeping with them, or converting them to Christianity, or black, or something—or unless there’s a big story in the news about some evil foreigner abusing his position as a tutor to sleep with his students, sell drugs and convert them to Christianity).
I did give lessons in China, but as far as I know it was legal (or in the grey area).
How concerned should one be about doing something of questionable legality in China? My prior for this is not to go near it with a ten foot pole.
Plenty of people are doing things of questionable legality in China and not getting in trouble, the government may or may not turn a blind eye depending of the issue, and of whether you’re Chinese or a foreigner (a common complaint of foreigners trying to start businesses in China is having to deal with regulations that their local competitors don’t seem to comply with). Selling drugs to kids would be an extremely stupid move, but as far as I know the government used to close it’s eyes to foreigners selling drugs to each other (though that was pre-olympics, I wouldn’t be surprised if they cleaned things up since then).
Selling English tutoring to kids shouldn’t be that risky (unless you’re sleeping with them, or converting them to Christianity, or black, or something—or unless there’s a big story in the news about some evil foreigner abusing his position as a tutor to sleep with his students, sell drugs and convert them to Christianity).
I did give lessons in China, but as far as I know it was legal (or in the grey area).
If there’s enough interest to get this throwaway five upvotes I’ll do a discussion article on teaching English in Shanghai.
Talk about the dating situation, please?