Of course, to be logical, it could also be said like this:

Despite theres an ongoing crackdown on car models - and they are banned by the Chinese presidents ongoing moral campaign - its possible that western car models were not part of this crackdown and that they were not at all dressed in a sexy manner, but grandmothers style jackets and thick socks.

Regardless of if it's frowned upon to model cars, they were in the public eye. Therefore the chances of them getting collared were increased ten fold. The world of a car model is probably a vacuumous one, chances are they were too occupied with their hair, make up and which tit to flop out to think about the fact they weren't entitled to work.

It's in your own interest to make sure you're hear legitimately. If you're not and annoying pedestrians on the shopping street with leaflets, promoting at Mr Wong's Jade shop or anything like that, all in the public eye then it's likely you'll come unstuck if you're not qualified to work.

If you find yourself teaching out of Mrs Miggins' kitchen on a weekend, or working for some experimental training centre, or you teach 1000 hours a week for a pittance, it doesn't take brains to presume that something's a miss. You can't act the victim when you're caught.

You can spot these kind of places from the off.

'Come to our Christmas party/ English corner, just to meet the students' - Work for nothing we want to market people we could never pay.

'Can you do an unpaid demo class for us' - We just need someone to show up and work for free.

'Pay depends on the amount of students' - We have no idea what we are doing, but we've heard its lucrative and need a gullible foreign idiot.

'We offer a competitive salary' - We'll just hire whoever is the cheapest, we don't want to commit to a price if someone is willing to work for less, that's the kind of guys we are.

'We can HELP you get a work visa' - We can't hire foreigners.

and any advert were they begin quoting the price of a bowl of rice or a carrot in a local market to justify their awful pay.

No teacher worth his salt would engage in that sort of nonsense and any school with even a passing interest in professionalism is going to hire you on the basis of your CV/ qualifications and references, like any other job would.

Any Chinese dolly bird could model a car, a migrant worker could hand out leaflets, a local with knowledge of Jade may be more beneficial to Mr Wong's shop. These are not the expertise that China is lacking, so you'll find your case won't be looked on favourably by the powers that be.

It's interesting that in a place where you can see dangerous parking and driving everywhere you look, companies and individuals breaking every health and safety regulation going, people constantly trying to cheat and steal, stabbings, explosions, fake (and toxic/poisonous) food and medicine, that the powers that be direct our attention to the moral 'sins' of wearing scanty outfits.

Hot pants and plunging necklines are certainly not to be tolerated. TIC

@Napoleon: right, modeling for car sales is probably not what brings them here - what I meant was, it's probably not any particular job at all that does so - certainly isn't what brought me here (and, uh, no I've never modeled for car sales).

Good point, Haali. Anyway, lets leave it to the States, where general art scene these days is pretty much about flashing ass and flashing tits. Sometimes someone maybe creates some special media hype, with a tattoo on one of the ass halves, and thats about it. Cool, as its said.

The amount of trash coming out of there these days, including the trash youth, is so vast, its polluting the world like Chinese coal factories.

Any country avoiding going down that same road of trash is making a wise choice. In recent years this trash started polluting the Chinese Internet and you could hardly open a single Chinese webpage without having some tits in your face. A limit has been set here too, which was a good choice.

And dont get me wrong, female tits and asses are nice to look at, but theres a certain limit too, when it gets into inflation, it becomes trash.

@Peter: Of course I know that it's all part of the effort to push fetishes into people's heads, but I wonder if the models in the advertisement cause as much brain damage as all the material damage caused by the cars that are sold. And private cars are, among other things, certainly fetishes too.

Back on topic. The young ladies were working illegally and fined. Did the hiring parties or agents pay the fine? Were they plunished for breaking the laws by hiring the young ladies? Was the Car company fined? Did the expo company recieve any warnings? How long were the models observed by the fining officials? Where is the evidence?

Inquiring minds want to know!

@Long-Dragon: According to the Chinese news sources I read, the modelling agency was fined 30,000, and each model was fined 10,000. Not sure who covered the models' fines.

The PSB claims they first started investigating when they saw ads by the modelling agency claiming to be the only modelling agency to offer "professional foreign models" for the auto show, as well as posting wanted ads for foreign models (presumably on this site, sometime in October).