I was hired to cruise around in a fake gold Mercedes golf cart with 5 other girls for 3 days, to lure investors for a miniature replica of Versailles. Pageants serve as infomercials: “Visit Ordos, or Dunhuang, or Dalian, or Chengdu: wealthy enough to import foreign pageant queens!”

in a fully globalized economy, you are now exotic.

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