About the author
Public information about Gao Shu is limited; it is known only that the author has two works in print, both centered on the glove puppet theater of Zhangzhou, Fujian. One is an oral history of inheritors of Zhangzhou glove puppet theater, which records performers' artistic careers and craft memories through oral history and preserves first-hand material for this local theatrical form. The other, North Tunes and Southern Voices: The Persistence and Transformation of Zhangzhou Glove Puppet Theater, traces the tradition's persistence and change from historical and cultural perspectives. Focused in subject and leaning toward history and cultural writing, the two books show the author's sustained attention to local traditional opera, intangible heritage transmission, and oral history methods. The writing is chiefly documentary and organizational, emphasizing the preservation of materials and the presentation of lineages, and offers useful reading for those interested in glove puppet theater and the transmission of folk art.
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Rating 3.8★ An Oral History of the Inheritors of Zhangzhou Hand Puppet Theater 高舒 Jinan University Press · 2020 "Puppetry (Zhangzhou glove puppetry)" and "Zhangzhou puppet head carving" were among the first entries inscribed on China's National Intangible Cultur… Rating 3.8★ Northern Tunes and Southern Accents: Preservation and Transformation of Zhangzhou Glove Puppetry 高舒 Jinan University Press · 2016 North Tunes, South Airs: Persistence and Transformation of Zhangzhou Hand Puppetry is a scholarly work that systematically studies Zhangzhou hand pupp…Publishers
Jinan University Press