If you work legal ans have a contract then you can report it to the police and they will assist.

Fritze is right, if you contract with your school you could sue them.

haha the police assist a foreigner when he is being cheated by a chinese, has this ever worked for anyone??????????

that is when you open up the anarchist cookbook and pick something real special for the head of the school.

seriously though , you need to move fast. communicate through email and text message your concern and request why they have not paid you. same time start looking for another job. and you want documentation that they havent paid. because you essentially are screwwed getting another contract without a release letter. hopefully the proof of non payment can lead to an end around the release letter

good luck if all else fails punchout the headmaster (its a joke cat) but seriously p...out the headmaster or sleep with his wife hehe it's a joke cat.... cant you take a joke??? have you no sense of humor!!!

Withhold the teaching.

1) Withhold the teaching, find new jobs, ect. and you wont get a letter of release for a new visa. I'm having that problem right now.

2) No pay = no lawyer. Those guys are expensive.

I would suggest compliments. Chinese love compliments.

As a legal assistant, going to the police only causes you trouble. You could use the company I work for Cote and Cote, but they are quite expensive. If the pay is behind a week, thats about right for par, two weeks hmmmm, three weeks, they probably aren't withholding it, they're running out of their money and don't have anything to give. Yes be nice please, Chinese love being complimented, it's true. May not get you far with your pay, but at least you'll be first in line when they have the funds to pay you.

In 2006, I arrived here to work in a small private school. I knew nothing. There were 4 foreigners on staff and the headmaster canned the 4 of us after 6 months... and cancelled our visas. He demanded we surrender our passports to one of the office girls for some crappy reason and at that time sounded reasonable. Due to this, the other three guys immediately got out of China. I was in shock, afraid and bewildered by this sudden turn of events. I knew I did nothing wrong and was not given any reason for the firing. So I decided to stay and find out what my options were. I had none so I didnt go to the cops, didn't go to a lawyer...didn't know what to do actually. I knew that if he could get our visa's cancelled then he probably was using some of that saved salary to thank his buddies downtown. So I got a meeting with the headmaster (oh, did I mention that it was salary day when he "canned" us?) after a few days of asking for one. At the meeting I was cool, asked what I could do in an effort to get my salary from him, mentioned that he was a good businessman to have his own school and that I wanted to learn from him, blah, blah, blah.....the outcome? I worked for two more weeks and got paid........and got the hell outta there no more than a few hours later. Got my Visa renewed and parlayed that story into a much better job.