Pros
Canteen serves Chinese food. Local staff good to work with.
Cons
If you aren't Chinese then you will not be included in any email chains. In most cases you will not be replied to at all when asking for information or help. Many emails are not translated into English. If they are, the translation is bad and not understandable. Management like to blame and humiliate local employees in meetings - even issues out of your direct control Senior Chinese management encourage other Chinese workers to challenge experienced local employees on everything - even extremely trivial matters Approval chains are ridiculously long. Prepare to chase others and be chased (i.e threatened with escalation to your direct manager) yourself. Senior Chinese management do not value independent thinking. Recommendations are always ignored. Local employees have no power to make any decisions whatsoever. Inexperienced expatriates often telling experienced local staff how to do things.