Marionette Plays from Northern China

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

About the author

Fan Pen Li Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors; Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi; and the editor and translator of Marionette Plays from Northern China, also published by SUNY Press.Fan Pen Li Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors; Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi; and the editor and translator of Marionette Plays from Northern China, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Fan Pen Li (EDT)/ Chen Chen, Fan-Pen Li Chen
• Assisted by: Fan Pen Li Chen (Editor), Fan Pen Li Chen (Introduction), Fan Pen Li Chen (Translation), Fan Pen Li Chen (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781438464831
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6483-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Asia, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General, DRAMA / Asian / General, Myth & legend told as fiction, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Plays, Playscripts, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry, Puppetry, miniature and toy theatre