{"id":64080,"date":"2016-05-22T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-22T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=64080"},"modified":"2016-05-17T21:46:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T01:46:57","slug":"i-wan-jan-puppet-theater-2016-us-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=64080","title":{"rendered":"I Wan Jan Puppet Theater 2016 US Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 22   02:15pm to 04pm<br \/>\nFlushing Town Hall<br \/>\n137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/puppet.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[64080]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64078\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/puppet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fourth generation master puppeteers from Taiwan, I Wan Jan, invited by Flushing Town Hall, Mid-Manhattan Library, Chinese- American Art Council, Michigan Taiwanese American Organization, will be visiting New York, Ann Arbor from May 20 to May 25 and performing the acclaimed \u201cA Chance Encounter Leads to Marriage\u201d (\u5de7\u9047\u59fb\u7de3).<\/p>\n<p>A Chance Encounter Leads Marriage is a mesmerizing, traditional hand puppet show based on Peking Opera. This non-verbal piece tells the tale of a young couple\u2019s chance meeting at a festival that has puppets juggling, performing martial arts and much more. A Chance Encounter Leads to Marriage, read as Qiao-Yu-Yin-Yuan.  This non-verbal piece tells the tale of a young couple\u2019s chance meeting at a festival that has puppets juggling, performing martial arts and much more.<\/p>\n<p>This classic performance will showcase the puppets\u2019 fine movements, such as the young male character (Sheng \u751f) folding a fan, the female character (Dan \u65e6) holding an umbrella, older male (Mo \u672b) smoking, the clown (Chou \u4e11)decking chair, and street entertainers\u2019 bustling martial arts and acrobatic acts. Without any language barriers, A Chance Encounter Leads Marriage will entertain kids as well as adults.<\/p>\n<p>I Wan Jan Puppet Theater\u2019s 2016 US Tour is mainly sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and other governmental as well as private organizations in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Free admission. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpecc.org\/?p=5883#more-\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tpecc.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, May 22 02:15pm to 04pm Flushing Town Hall 137-35 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64082,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64080\/revisions\/64082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}