Shadow puppets will add a special flavor to the 19th Asian Games, which kicks off in September in Zhejiang province. A professional shadow puppet production group — the Huige Society in Haining, ...

Would you like to create a shadow puppet (piying) for your performance? Tianqiao Acrobatic Theater of Beijing is spearheading a revival of the cut-out shapes. Visitors to the theater in Beijing have ...

Two warriors in ancient costume fight ferociously. Suddenly, to the dramatic sound of drums a red-faced warrior pulls out his sword before beheading his white-faced enemy. This is not a scene from a ...

This shadow puppet is at least 200 years old and is one of the oldest surviving shadow puppets in the world. It represents Bima the hero of the great Hindu epic The Mahabharata. Puppets like this are ...