Forgotten Heritage: Uncovering Singapore’s Traditional Chinese Puppets 

11 Decemeber 2021
3-5 pm
Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre

Public lecture “Forgotten Heritage: Uncovering Singapore’s Traditional Chinese Puppets” was held at the Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre. Dr Caroline Chia, who has spent more than a decade of fieldwork studying Chinese opera and puppet theatre, shared her findings of this rich and colourful heritage, together with Dr Jesvin Yeo, an enthusiast committed to the preservation of cultural heritage and traditional crafts related to Singapore. The audience was introduced to various traditional Chinese puppet theatres in Singapore, including the Hainanese rod puppetry, Henghua string puppetry, Hokkien glove puppetry, Hokkien string puppetry and Teochew iron-stick puppetry, as well as the now-defunct Hakka (Waijiang) string puppetry.