Four colourful human-like puppets performed on stage to promote a cultural heritage event in China. Footage shows the ...

An inheritor delivers a shadow puppet show at the eighth China Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo in Jinan, East China’s Shandong province, on Thursday. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The ...

Carefully cut out the puppet figures along the dotted lines. Colour in the puppets and attach each to a stick using tape or glue. Carefully cut a large hole in the front of the box. Tape the white ...

Shadow puppets flitting across screens and reliving ... For the Chinese, the show is the forerunner of cinema – in the Chinese language the word “cinema” literally means “electric shadow”.

What is shadow puppetry? How do you make them? Instructions Key Mandarin words Carefully cut out the puppet figures along the dotted lines. Colour in the puppets and attach each to a stick using ...