What it's Like to Visit China's Theme Park Staffed Entirely by People of Short Stature

A dozen warriors in green tunics and crimson cloaks march down a long central staircase, brandishing golden swords and shields. As the foreboding chorus of Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana fills the open-air amphitheater, a haggard witch appears on an overhanging television screen to issue a blood-chilling curse. Then the frenzied slashing begins. The audience nibbles sunflower seeds and fiddles with smartphones. An old woman knits.