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Tianjin, China
5 customs and traditions in Tianjin — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
Two-person comic dialogue, and Tianjin is its capital — performed nightly in teahouses.
Woodblock prints made in a nearby town for four centuries, pasted up at new year.
The Zhang family's painted clay portraits, a craft over 180 years old.
Wei kites, built with detachable frames, a Tianjin speciality since the Qing.
Nine foreign concessions in one city produced a built environment nowhere else in China has.
