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easyrider

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Q: Anyone seen a shadow puppet show in China?

My ol' man grew up in Hong Kong and he brought back several shadow puppets which he had on display in our house. Use to scare me when I was a kid! Now I'm over this side of the world, I wanna take the chance to see a shadow puppet show (and eventually conquer my fear). Any reports?

13 years 27 weeks ago in Culture - China

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erokose

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I saw a shadow puppet show a few years ago in Kaifeng, Henan and I really enjoyed it.

It is amazing what they can achieve with such a simple puppets, specially when representing animals and landscapes

However, the show that I saw lasted 10-15 minutes, if you go to a longer show you might get bored as the stories tend to be quite simple

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manasyt

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Saw a Cambodian one in Malaysia...not bad

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mArtiAn

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Only shadow puppet show i've ever seen was on 'Once Upon A Time In New York' if I remember rightly. DeNiro getting high in an opium den while the shadows danced. I'd be up for that show.

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