Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton by Grant Hayter-Menzies

Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton

Grant Hayter-Menzies

232 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

informative slow-paced
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Kansas-born Pauline Benton (1898-1974) was encouraged by her father, one of America's earliest feminist male educators, to reach for the stars. Instead, she reached for shadows. In 1920s Beijing, she discovered shadow theatre (piyingxi), a perform...

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