With all of the clampdowns and crackdowns going on in China at the moment, I thought there would be some effort by the police to try and stop foreigners being ripped off by the tea-house and art gallery scams.

Despite the scams being written about fairly extensively on the internet and in guide books like the Lonely Planet it seems like foreigners are still falling for the above two scams fairly frequently, if you read any travel forum on China.

For the few brave people who