Dancing images: Puppets on a shadow theatre stage during a performance by the Beijing Shadow Show Troupe at a school in Beijing. (Inset) The troupe’s puppeteers conducting a performance for the schoolchildren. — AFP
Beijing: Shadow puppets flitting across screens and reliving age old stories have fascinated Chinese people for some 2,000 years, but falling audiences mean troupes are having to be creative to stay on the stage.
On a translucent screen in a Beijing classroom, a child with a cosmic ring takes on the son of the dragon king, attacking him with huge thrusts of his lance.
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