Nature can be ruthless, but the people who fight against it are fearless.
In metropolises like Beijing, Tianjin and Guangzhou, the centuries-old folk art of storytelling is relegated to a handful of teahouses, small theaters and even sauna bath centers.
Percussionist Jimmy Biala moves around the stage, amid microphones, instruments and a drum machine, drawing a range of sounds from his drums, with his fingernails and hands.
"I won't invite guests to perform, I won't dance, take off my clothes or dress up like a peacock to arouse attention of the audience," says Taiwan singer and song producer David Tao, who was in town last week to prepare for his Beijing concert on March 1.
According to a survey by the Chengdu Commercial Daily, the top-selling Chinese writer of 2007 was Guo Jingming, a post-1980-born pulp fiction writer, while the second went to Yu Dan, a woman professor from Beijing Normal University whose Notes on The Analects of Confucius has sold millions of copies.
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