I've been doing a little research on what it is like to be a vegetarian in China and there seem to be opinions across the board on this topic. On the one hand, China was a Buddhist country for several hundred years, meaning a huge part of the population did not eat meat for religious reasons. However, this is no longer the case in modern China. Also, many poor people in China cannot afford to eat much (if any) meat. Yet this does not mean they understand someone who chooses to not eat meat. If anything, the absence of meat almost deifies it, undermining their involuntary vegetarianism.
The main conclusion that I have come to is that it is not going to be all that difficult to eat (mostly) vegetarian in China, especially considering my exceptionally loose definition of the term. It just involves being flexible and knowing a little Chinese. This website has been pretty helpful. I think I will ask my Mandarin teacher as well.
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