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Ritual and Puppet Theatre

Masked exorcist drama and the theatre of strings, rods and shadows.

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String Marionettes

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Puppet plays in which performers work wooden figures on ten to more than thirty strings

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Plays acted by carved leather or paper figures, their shadows cast on a lit screen

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Ritual drama of Mulian rescuing his mother, staged over several days at the Ghost Festival and jiao rites

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Puppet plays worked on rods from below the screen, including iron-rod and firework puppets

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Masked martial plays of the Tunpu villages of Anshun, sung by farmers with the mask worn on the brow

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Masked plays staged by nuo priests inside rites of thanksgiving and vow-fulfilment

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Hand-worn cloth puppets, the 'theatre in the palm', strongest in southern Fujian and Taiwan

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