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Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton
Shadow Woman The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton
Author: Grant Hayter-Menzies
Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a performance art where translucent painted puppets are manipulated by highly trained masters to cast coloure...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780773542013
ISBN-10: 0773542019
Publication Date: 10/1/2013
Pages: 232
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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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