Glove puppetry began in Fujian and later grew into a kind of television show in Taiwan.
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The puppeteer's hand goes inside the cloth body, which is why it is a "cloth bag" (布袋) show; it is also called 掌中戏 "palm theatre". Its best-known master, 李天禄, is the subject of Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1993 film The Puppetmaster.
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霹雳布袋戏Pīlì Bùdàixì
Pili Puppetry
Taiwan's long-running glove-puppet martial-arts series, made since the 1980s with film-style effects, which turned the folk art into a TV phenomenon.
