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To seek divine protection for performers and ensure a successful show
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A string puppet show in Chinatown. Courtesy of National Archives of Singapore.
Chinatown in the 1930s, Tan Kok Kheng Collection, courtesy of National Archives of Singapore
Sources
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推广华语理事会. (2000). 华人、华语、华文 [The Chinese connection]. 推广华语理事会.
Chia, C. (2015). Potehi in Singapore, survival and change. In K. Fushiki & R. Ruizendaal (Eds.), Potehi: Glove puppet theatre in Southeast Asia and Taiwan (pp. xx-xx). Taiyuan Publishing.
Ruizendaal, R. (1990). A discovery in Fujian province: Iron-stick puppet theatre. CHIME: Newsletter of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research, 2, 28–42.
Teh, S. H. (2004). 新加坡海南杖头木偶－三春隆木偶班个案研究 [Hainanese rod puppet in Singapore – A case study of San Chun Long puppet troupe] (Honours thesis). National University of Singapore.
Chia, C. (2016). The interaction of oral and literate practices in Singaporean Chinese temple theatre (Doctoral thesis). University of Melbourne.
Contributor
2024. “Opening the Stage (开台仪式)“. In Performing Archipelagos, edited by Kyueun Kim, Alvin Eng Hui Lim and Hedren Wai Yuan Sum. Singapore: National University of Singapore.