Chinese puppetry, which had seemed to be going the way of other vanishing folk arts, received new life recently.
布袋戲和許多其他的民俗演藝一樣，似乎正在從我們的社會中消褪。昔日在台前看戲的，如今選擇在家中看電視；也許也看布袋戲，不過是已經「電視化」的布袋戲。但是最近，有些新的發展使布袋戲似乎又有了轉機。