YE Mingsheng’s The History of Chinese Puppet Theatre is a crucial piece of work on traditional Chinese puppet theatre. It has made contributions to the studies of the history of Chinese puppet theatre through constructing a system for the history of puppet theatre and broadening the horizon of research in the field. The work defines Chinese puppet theatre more completely as a research object,thus undertaking more scientific and intellectual methods. It is a substantial achievement in protecting,preserving and developing of Chinese puppet theatre.