Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:25:38 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Celebrate Chinese New Year with dolls and puppets in


Cahebay-AT-aol.com wrote:

>Celebrate Chinese New Year with dolls and puppets in Kaohsiung...
>

Thanks for the link, Mark - here's a shorter one going to the same 
article on another site...

http://english.cca.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=13532&ctNode=3905

(Optimized for MS Internet Explorer, unfortunately)


I only visited Kaohsiung once while my wife and I were living in Taiwan 
in the Eighties, but Taiwan is the place where my childhood love of 
puppetry was rekindled as an adult. We never owned a television during 
the two years that we lived there, so I managed to completely miss out 
on the contemporary Pili puppet phenomenon, but we enjoyed street 
performances that itinerant puppeteers gave from the backs of trucks 
which had been converted into rolling stages. (In retrospect, watching 
Mandarin language TV might have been a helpful supplement to my daily 
classes.)

Besides enjoying the street performances, I visited Chinese folk art and 
culture museums there with great collections of old puppets and stages. 
Unfortunately I didn't become aware of the depth of Taiwan and southern 
China's puppetry heritage until investigating it on the Internet a few 
years ago. If we ever go back I'll have a much better idea of where to 
go and what to look for.

Thanks again,

Ron Glasgow
Cumming GA
USA


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