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Shadow Puppetry
Shadow Puppetry, also called “pi-hou xi,” is a kind of traditional puppet show in Taiwan. As it has never been widely popular, it can only be found in the Kaohsiung area today. Shadow Puppetry performances are usually held at night. The puppeteer holds cut-outs of puppets between a translucent screen and a source of light to present a narrative play. As an old saying goes, “I slept through the night in the twinkling of a shadow puppet’s eye.” The background music is mainly Chao-tune (chao-diao) music, a kind of popular music originating in Chaozhou, Guangdong.
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- Yung Shing Le Shadow Puppet Theatre Troupe
Yung Shing Le Shadow Puppet Theatre Troupe, established by Mr. Zhang Li in Mi-tuo Village, Kaohsiung Province, did not have a name to begin with, so i... (Read more)
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- Tung-Hua Skin Shadow Puppet Theater
The Tung-Hua Shadow Puppet Theater is the oldest puppet theater troupe in Taiwan; its traditions have been passed down in one family for generations. ... (Read more)
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- PUPPET & ITS DOUBLE
The Puppet and Its Double Theater was founded in September 1999. Upholding the experimental spirit of “promoting puppetry in a modern theatre”, the co... (Read more)
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- The Five Generals’ Conquering of the Western Region: White Crane Pass
In the Song Dynasty, Di Qing, one of the Five Great Generals, was sent with others to the Western Region to fight against the barbarians when he accid... (Read more)
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- Flesh-cutting
After marrying Meng Re-hong, Gao Yan-zhen leaves for the capital to take the court exam and passes the exam as a zhuang-yuan scholar. Premier Ling Yi ... (Read more)
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- Ji Gong Fighting Monster Furong
Jigong is a mythological character in Chinese popular religion. Legend has it that he is the incarnation of Arhat. Different from other Buddhist disci... (Read more)
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- Journey to the West: The Adventure at Black Water River
This play is adapted from a section of Journey to the West, narrating the events when Tang Sanzang and his disciples cross the Black River. The Tung-H... (Read more)
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- Journey to the West: Sun Wu-kong Fighting Princess Iron Fan
The Tung-Hua Shadow Puppet Theater adapted a section of Journey to the West into Sun Wu-kong Fighting Princess Iron Fan. It describes Sun Wu-kong as h... (Read more)
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- Monkey King At Spider Cave
The Puppet and Its Double Theater invited international shadow puppetry master Larry Reed to Taiwan to lead Taiwanese artists in experimental product... (Read more)