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Sweaty backrooms, cigar-chomping promoters, Bangkok box-office bonanzas, all built around scenarios like this:

But Nancy Pellegrini, the classical and performance editor of Time Out in Beijing and Shanghai says the Lang Lang effect is not something to be celebrated. 'In developing countries, music is seen as a way out of poverty,’ she tells me. 'Since the success of Lang Lang, people think that if you’re really good at piano you can become an international superstar with more money than you know what to do with. So a lot of kids have been pushed into piano.