Chinese Shadow Puppet Plays
Author : Qilin Liu
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Folk art
ISBN :
Author : Qilin Liu
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Folk art
ISBN :
Author : L. Jilin
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 31,71 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780785558422
Author : Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher : Cornell East Asia Series
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This collection of Chinese shadow plays contains seven selected traditional shadow plays from the Qing and early Republican periods from Shaanxi and Shanxi. A minor operatic genre, the Chinese shadow theatre provides one of the best avenues for examining the mentality and sense of humor of the silent masses. Although Shaanxi sports the largest number of shadow traditions in China and is where the art form is most vibrant, its shadow plays have never before been published in either Chinese or English. Translated from rare hand-copied play scripts, this volume includes the most literary and refined plays of the genre as well as coarser popular plays and farcical Post-midnight skits. It also features a survey of the state of the shadow theatre in contemporary China, extensive critical introductions and bibliography.
Author : Fan-Pen Li Chen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0773531971
In her study of Chinese shadow theatre Fan-Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. She argues how a traditional folk theatre reflected and subverted Chinese popular culture.
Author : Chʻi-lin Liu
Publisher :
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Puppets and puppet-plays
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Author : Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773589090
Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloured shadows against an illuminated screen. Finding that this thousand-year-old forerunner of motion pictures was declining in China, Benton believed she could save the tradition by taking it to America. Mastering the male-dominated art form in China, Benton enchanted audiences eager for the exotic in Depression-era America. Her touring company, Red Gate Shadow Theatre, was lauded by theatre and art critics and even performed at Franklin Roosevelt's White House. Grant Hayter-Menzies traces Benton's performance history and her efforts to preserve shadow theatre as a global cultural treasure by drawing on her unpublished writings, the recollections of her colleagues, the testimonies of shadow masters who survived China's Cultural Revolution, as well as young innovators who have carried on Benton's pioneering work.
Author : Berthold Laufer
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Oriental drama
ISBN :
Author : Max Von Boehn
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 38,9 MB
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1447480988
This classic book contains a photographic guide to the history of the shadow puppet theatre in the West, and will prove to be be a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the subject. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Author : Max von Boehn
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1447484622
This classic book contains a photographic guide to the history of the oriental and occidental shadow puppet theatre, and will prove to be a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in the subject.This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.
Author : Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Obrazt͡sov
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Puppet plays
ISBN :
Describes the various types of Chinese puppet theater, discusses ancient traditional plays still performed, and speculates on the origin of the gloved puppet.