There is an attraction, a sort of park, in the south of Kunming. Originally, an ambitious developer decided to make Kunming the site of China's largest botanical butterfly garden. Apparently nobody got very excited about the garden, which is perhaps less than half an acre in size, and the developer decided to expand. A little over a year ago, the owner began to hire little people to dress up in costumes and entertain guests in the park. These performers proved a lot more popular than a seasonally temperamental butterfly garden, and the Dwarf Empire was born. Today, I'm told the park has several dozen little people, probably soon to be 100 of them. The "freak show" school of entertainment, as it stands in China, is about where I imagine it was in America about 80 years
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