The government has been trying to fight the country’s funereal stripper scourge for some time now. In 2006, the state-run broadcaster China Central Television’s leading investigative news show Jiaodian Fangtan aired an exposé on the practice of scantily clad women making appearances at memorial services in Donghai in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.
The point of inviting strippers, some of whom performed with snakes, was to attract large crowds to the deceased’s funeral – seen as a harbinger of good fortune in the afterlife. “It’s to give them face,” one villager explained. “Otherwise no one would come.
Full article. Traditional values and modern markets always interact in interesting ways. Though seldom this interesting.
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RT @TimHarford: Markets for funeral strippers in China. Of course http://t.co/3PKUyeyHxM
RT @TimHarford: Markets for funeral strippers in China. Of course http://t.co/3PKUyeyHxM
I realize how little I know about other cultures when I see articles like this http://t.co/SZwvBiC6Nl from @cblatts
Markets for funeral strippers in China: The government has been trying to fight the country’s funereal strippe… http://t.co/uHDSoWh1mN
Sometimes new and old collide in ways I can hardly believe: Markets for funeral strippers in China http://t.co/SyeeDkFnrq via @chrisblattman
RT @cblatts: Markets for funeral strippers in China http://t.co/xI4lcvyPAH
RT @cblatts: Markets for funeral strippers in China http://t.co/xI4lcvyPAH
RT @cblatts: Markets for funeral strippers in China http://t.co/xI4lcvyPAH
…”with snakes”, because funerals only with strippers might not be odd enough.@cblatts
RT @cblatts: Markets for funeral strippers in China http://t.co/xI4lcvyPAH
In other international weirdness: having strippers at a funeral is a thing in China and the gov’t is not pleased. http://t.co/004zHvay5j