Explore: Chinese Puppet Plays

shadow puppet theatre is found in both old Chinese and Indian texts. The most significant historical centers of shadow play theatre have been China, Southeast

scenes. Chinese shadow puppet (Beijing style) Chinese stick puppets Sanbaso bunraku puppet, Tonda Puppet Troupe, Japan The character Osono from the play Hade

chanting and shamisen playing is called jōruri and the Japanese word for puppet (or dolls, generally) is ningyō. It is used in many plays. Bunraku's history

A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an

would flood, the villagers would entertain each other using this form of puppet play. Modern water puppetry is performed in a pool of water four meters square

The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread & Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, based in Glover,

Theatre of China has a long and complex history. Traditional Chinese theatre, generally in the form of Chinese opera, is musical in nature. Chinese theatre

Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris; it features life-size horse puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa, the movements of which were choreographed

of the Republic of China, commonly described as the Wang Jingwei regime, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in eastern China. It existed coterminous

A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. Puppetry is