I wish I could answer your questions. I keep asking them myself. I want to talk about it with someone local, but it&#x27;s incredibly hard to find someone speaking English here outside work (and incredibly awkward to ask those questions at work), and my Chinese currently is limited to &quot;hello&quot;, &quot;thank you&quot; and &quot;goodbye&quot; (I try to learn some as fast as I can; I only had a week&#x27;s notice I&#x27;ll be flying here so there wasn&#x27;t time to prepare).<p>My Polish co-worker who is here with me and has been here before tells me of a girl working here who somehow escaped the poor villages far away from the metropolis and ended up working as a software tester. He says that he tried to talk with her about life, but that her English proficiency is limited to the technical matters; she can&#x27;t express herself in English if asked about non-work topics, probably due to lack of general vocabulary.<p>I&#x27;ll be happy to post something if I learn the answers to those questions.