Chinese Shadow Theatre
earliest edition we have, 2007 McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007 368 pages
Chinese shadow theatre, a rare and ancient art from combining exquisite carvings with painting, music, singing, performance, and literature, owes its preservation to a non-elite, peripheral, and silent majority. In Chinese Shadow Theatre Fan Pen Li Chen documents and corrects misconceptions about this once-popular art form. Drawing on extensive research and fieldwork, she argues that these plays served a mainly relig...
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