Michael Wines, Puppet Masters Try to Bring Art Out of the Shadows. New York
Times, Dec. 11, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/world/asia/11puppets.html?scp=2&sq=puppet&st=cse
("Mr. Cui and his wife want to leave China for good. And they intend to take
their puppets with them")
Note:
(a) Beijing Cui Yongping Shadow Play Art Museum 北京崔永平皮影艺术博物馆
(b) China Quaternary Glacier Museum 中国第四纪冰川陈列馆
quaternary glacier 第四纪冰川/第四纪冰期
(i) quaternary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary
(spanning 2.588 ± 0.005 million years ago to the present)
(ii) Quaternary glaciation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
(also known as the current ice age or simply the ice age; refers to the
period of the last few million years (2.58 Ma to present))
"Ma" stands for "million year"--Latin annum year.
(c) Until this, I did not know China has shadow puppet. I thought it started
in Indonesia.
shadow play
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_play
(section 1.1 Mainland China)
Contrary to Wiki, while in Taiwan I was unaware of its presence.