string and shadow puppets in different parts of India. Besides these, there are several new groups of puppeteers who are not generational puppeteers and work with an amalgam of old and new techniques.

Chinese shadow puppetry is a form of theatre whereby colourful silhouette figures perform traditional plays against a back-lit cloth screen, accompanied by music and singing. Puppeteers make the ...

Manipulated by Wang using rods, puppet figures create the illusion of moving images on a screen illuminated ... to offer courses on shadow puppetry, passing on his skills to the next generation.

[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 ...

Today's object is a shadow puppet from Indonesia ... in order to avoid the Islamic prohibition on creating images of humans and gods. Stories are told of attempts in the sixteenth or seventeenth ...