[Photo provided to China Daily] Inside the main exhibition hall, a striking shadow puppet figure of the legendary female warrior, Mu Guiying, of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), towers ...
Malaysian college lecturer Ahnaf Hakimi Ahmad hopes to save the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry using 3D-printed figures controlled by robotics instead of people. "Wayang kulit", a theatrical ...
The dalang or shadow puppeteer would skillfully ... At the beginning and end of the show, a special puppet called the Pohon Beringin (Tree of Life or banyan tree) is used to signify the start ...
[Photo by Shen Bohan/Xinhua] In 2000, with the support of Zhao Shutong, a shadow puppet collector in Chengdu, Sichuan, Wang Biao relocated in Chengdu with his wife and two apprentices, where they ...