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One of the wave of civic performing-arts buildings raised across provincial China in recent years, the Baoji Grand Theatre serves a city in the Wei river valley of western Shaanxi — an industrial place known to archaeologists for the Zhou bronzes found in its fields. Halls like it have redrawn the map of touring in China: orchestras on New Year circuits now reach cities that had no professional stage at all a generation ago.