Guangzhou Zoo

This guide to Guangzhou Zoo in Guangzhou centers on a single week in September 2017, when the zoo announced its animal circus was over and the show went on anyway. It follows circus director Huang Yingzhi's public standoff with the zoo, and the Anhui Guangde troupe that had performed here since 1993 for audiences nearing ten million people, with bears hula-hooping and monkeys pedaling bicycles right up to the final shows.