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Hagyomány és modernitás között. Bábjátszás Kínában
Between Tradition and Modernity. Puppet Theatre in China

Author(s): Emőke Bodor
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Published by: Játéktér Egyesület
Keywords: Chinese Puppet Theatre;

Summary/Abstract: Emőke Bodor wrote an essay about Chinese puppet theatre entitled Between Tradition and Modernity. The text deals with the legends about the creation of the Chinese puppet, different traditions and the place of puppetry in Chinese culture. The essay reveals which of the genres enumerated (scale-rod theatre, cloth pouch puppets, marionette, gunpowder puppets, shadow-play) are still present in Chinese culture and what it​ means to be a puppet artist in China.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 70-73
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Hungarian