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list price: $95.00
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback Hardcover
category: Performing Arts
published: Jun 2007
ISBN:9780773575998
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
imprint: MQUP

Chinese Shadow Theatre

History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors

by Fan Pen Li Chen

tagged: history & criticism
Description

Chinese Shadow Theatre includes several rare transcriptions of oral performances, including a didactic play on the Eighteen Levels of Hell, and Investiture of the Gods, a sacred saga, and translations of three rare, hand-copied shadow plays featuring religious themes and women warrior characters.

About the Author
Fan Pen Li Chen is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, SUNY-Albany, and author of Marionette Plays from Northern China.

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