Chimelong International Circus Ticket Office

This guide to the Chimelong International Circus in Guangzhou opens with Su Zhigang, a Panyu delivery boy too poor to finish school who talked his way into understanding every restaurant he served, and who by 1989 had saved enough to open one of his own. It follows the obsession he developed touring safari parks abroad, and his leap from a wildlife park and a vast crocodile farm to the ring beside you, built with more than a billion yuan. Listen for how many countries' performers now share that hundred-meter stage.