Bobo Balde is on duty at the African Cup of Nations, DuWei failed to win a long-term deal and Roy Keane picked up an injury after playing one game at the back.
Kuwait's Serbian coach Goran Tufegdzic was unhappy that Australian referee Benjamin Williams did not award his team a penalty in the opening 20 minutes when China skipper DuWei brought down Bader Al Mutawa.
While the auto-eroticism of wannabe grunge writers like Shanghai Baby Wei Hui and her regional clones might be the fad du jour among pop authors, China's reforms go deeper than just sex, money and karaoke.