Chinese performers are putting on a show across the Scottish capital this month as the world’s biggest annual arts festival, the Edinburgh Fringe, approaches its fourth and final week. An estimated 2.5 million tickets are expected to be sold by the end of August at this year’s Fringe, which features more than 50,000 performers in more than 3,300 shows. Since organizers established the China Focus program last year, the festival has become a platform from which Chinese artists can share their talent with an international audience. “The China Focus program helps British people learn about China’s traditional and contemporary cultures, and the diversity of Chinese art forms,” said Zhao Miao, a choreographer at the National Theater of China who has brought his new play A Life on the Silk Road to Edinburgh this year. Zhao said he traveled to several important outposts along the route of the old Silk Road while researching the piece. “I discovered so much along the way and we hope that this story will enable the audience to learn about the history of Silk Road,” said Zhao. Children’s show A Chinese Bestiary runs at The Prince Phillip Building until Sunday. The production sees young performers from the Creative Me Children’s Theater incorporate Chinese traditional instruments and shadow puppetry into an interpretation of Shan Hai Jing, a classical legend that features mythical beasts. Perhaps the most high-profile Chinese act at this year’s Fringe is comedian Ken Cheng, who performs a touching and clever stand-up( 说单口相声的 )hour at the Bedlam Theater until Aug 26th. Cheng won an award for best joke at the Fringe last year. “Coming to Edinburgh has led to a lot of exposure,” Cheng said. His television series on channel E4 and a show on BBC Radio 4 are due out later in the year.