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  "name": "Chinese pingshu storytelling",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Northern Chinese solo oral storytelling (pingshu, 'commentary-book'), in which a standing teller serialises long historical and martial-heroic novels — Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Generals of the Yang Family — over many nightly episodes, traditionally in teahouses using a folding fan, a handkerchief and a wooden waking-block (xingmu) rapped for emphasis. A Beijing-Tianjin Mandarin-language art distinct from the southern sung tanci, it reached mass audiences through radio and television, with Yuan Kuocheng and Shan Tianfang among its best-known twentieth-century masters. Delivery is vivid narrative speech with sudden gesture, mimicry and the crack of the block to mark suspense.",
  "recipe": "classic East Asian early-1930s chinese pingshu storytelling, art Music, east Asian branch beijing opera tibetan ache lhamo opera. thick, breath veiled tone, slow rate, interlocked note trading. chinese traditional teahouse. RCA 44-BX, calrec BBC-broadcast pre, BBC broadcast console, Telefunken u73b broadcast comp, broadcast loudness EQ. AM-radio broadcast.",
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  "score": 217.861,
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    "room": "chinese_traditional_teahouse",
    "archetype": "arch_network_radio_broadcast",
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    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
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