"Every stroke of the knife needs to be slow and precise, as it is an art of meticulous reduction. If one eye is carved crooked, the entire work is ruined," he says. In 1978, Lin signed himself up for ...

Xu Qiang (2nd R, front), son of Xu Zhuchu who is a national-level intangible cultural heritage inheritor of Zhangzhou wood puppet head carving, displays carving techniques to students in Zhangzhou ...