On the business of education in the world's next superpower.
It's a bad start to one's career: Alone in a foreign country, broke, homeless, living on borrowed time with an expired visa. That was just the start of one teacher's sojourn through the education system of the People's Republic of China. KINGDOM OF SHARKS is the account of a year in the life of a foreign teacher - from his first days with a "respected" private firm, to his teaching assignments in the local farming villages, his escape from a company intent on robbing its own teachers, and one last hurrah in Shanghai. Along the way, he highlights the corruption, abuse and illegal activity that is tragically common in these industries. Mixed in are descriptions of Chinese cultural and business practices, an attempt to explain the increasingly bizarre happenings.