Shanghai Taxi Dancers in 1949; Shanghai Auto Show Girls in 2015 – Feel the Rhyme!

File this one under the ever more packed heading ‘nothing new under the sun’ – models who have traditionally worked the Shanghai Auto Show went on strike recently after they were banned from their usual activities of causing a scrum of males to bash their camera phones in excitement as they drape themselves over unexciting Volkswagens.

Back in 1949 Time photographer hit the ‘Hai and found taxi-dancers from the city’s nightclubs and dancehalls up in arms and protesting at the curtailment of their long-established business….

In both cases much attention was drawn to the incidents and disputes presumably as both auto show models in 2015 and taxi dancers in 1949 are rather more interesting to look at than coal miners or textile factory workers?