Fan Pen Li Chen is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Chinese Shadow Theatre: History, Popular Religion, and Women Warriors and Visions for the Masses: Chinese Shadow Plays from Shaanxi and Shanxi.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Post-Midnight Skits
Lai Baozi ¿¿¿
Baldy's Wedding Night ¿¿¿¿
Peddling Notions ¿¿¿
Part II. Historical Fiction
Empress Lü Usurps the Throne ¿¿¿¿
Yang Wenguang ¿¿¿
Short Version of River Yang ¿¿¿

Part III. Romance
The White Undershirt ¿¿¿
Pavilion of the Immortals in Exile ¿¿¿
Works Cited and Bibliography of Chinese Puppet Theatre