Shows & Performances

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Chengdu's beloved evening of Sichuan opera, puppetry, and the legendary face-changing act.

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Tianjin is the home of xiangsheng, China's stand-up comedy - and the teahouse is its cathedral.

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A 240-million-year-old cave of stone forests and grottoes, lit like a cathedral of light.

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Beijing's most famous teahouse: opera, acrobatics, and face-changing acts with a cup of jasmine tea.

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The story of a boy's path to kung fu mastery, told with a cast of 40 martial artists - no language needed.

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Beijing's most energetic crosstalk comedy club, packing a 200-year-old art form into sold-out nightly shows.

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A grand old Chengdu teahouse where Sichuan opera, tea, and ear-cleaning all happen at the same table.

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The teahouse where Tianjin's crosstalk comedians have trained for decades - nightly comedy in a room that laughs with you.

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Choreographer Yang Liping's tribal dance epic, performed nightly with drumming, bronze masks, and 70 dancers from Yunnan's villages.

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China's most famous outdoor show - ten thousand spectators, a mountain for a stage, and the empire's greatest love story.

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UNESCO-listed string puppetry from the city that invented it, performed by masters whose fingers do the acting.

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Zhang Yimou's river-wide stage: 600 performers, karst peaks as scenery, and the Li River as the floor.

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A walled Song-dynasty city on Hangzhou's edge, where you eat, dress, and watch the greatest show in Chinese theater.

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Beijing's most foreigner-friendly Peking opera house, where silk robes, painted faces, and sword dances take the stage nightly.