Stick puppet plays were introduced to Xiaoyi during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), and the art form enjoyed its heyday during the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.

"The puppet weighs up to 3 kilograms," says Wong, adding it is hard to support all that weight on a stick. "But after playing with puppets for three or four hours a day, I kind of got used to it." ...

Released in 1908, the stick puppet appears to be in an unique environment where a wine bottle turns into a flower that turns the trunk of an elephant and further into a prison. For the second and ...

Stick puppets in costume dramas coproduced by the Chinese mainland and Taiwan are capable of complicated movements, and are all handmade by Wang Maowei, a puppet artist from Shanxi province.[Photo ...