NSFW: The Naked Truth About Chinese Car Shows
The car show in Haikou on the Chinese island of Hainan is small as far as car shows go. Organizers had to try harder to attract visitors. Or, being small, they had to save money, and they decided to spare the garments of their female product specialists. They appeared covered in not much more than flowers.
Caution, the following pictures could be considered as offensive and NSFW in Sharia jurisdictions and parts of America, but have become quite common in officially still communist China.
According to Tycho at Carnewschina, who uncovers these things for TTAC ( and who has higher res pictures), “organizers of the show called it ‘art’, as in body paint, but authorities weren’t that stupid and the show received a stern warning.”
It has become customary ( see Chengdu and Beijing) that the stern warning are handed out towards the end of the show, guaranteeing maximum, well, exposure for the show, a kept face for the authorities, and, well, coverage as far as TTAC in the U.S. of A.
How did the Chairman put it? Let a thousand flowers bloom. He did not specify the location of the blooming.
Either that, or the organizers took the “flower street” concept far too literal.
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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Bertel, do you find that your job becomes harder when you cover these shows?
Considering that these girls will probably be spending the night with some syphilitic senior Communist party member, a billionaire robber baron who makes iPads with slave labor, or the sadistic spoiled son of one of these men... I can't imagine why they're not smiling. Get used to your Chinese overlords. We'll all be working for them soon enough because we can't be bothered to pay Americans fair wages to build our cheap crap.