Gao Qingwang

02-0684Shadow PuppetryTraditional OperaHuan, GansuBatch 2 (2008)

Lineage & School of Heritage

At the age of nineteen Gao Qingwang began studying front-stage performance in the troupe of his maternal grandfather Liang Shicang, and in 1986 he purchased his own stage chest and began forming a troupe to perform.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

Male, Han ethnicity, born in 1963, a native of Huan County, Gansu. Because he excels at carving shadow figures, his troupe possesses a complete repertoire of figures, and he has a firm command of fifty plays performed with the script at hand and ten plays sung from memory. His singing is full and well regulated, his voice resonant and his manipulation of the figures steady; he is an outstanding representative of the Wei school and one of the best-known carving artists in Huan County.

Honors & Recognition

A representative bearer of Shadow Puppetry (Huan County Daoqing Shadow Puppetry), a second-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.

References & Archival Sources

Gao Qingwang · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Shadow Puppetry
Item code: Ⅳ-91
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Huan, Gansu
Born: 1963.03
Batch: Batch 2 (2008)

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