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World Service,8 mins

The Taiwanese puppet master saving a dying art

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Hsi-huang Chen is one of the few traditional puppet masters left in Taiwan. Traditional puppet theatre, known as Budaixi, is a kind of epic opera performed with glove puppets on a portable, ornate wooden stage. Outlook's Cindy Sui went to meet Mr Chen. (Photo credit: Sam Yeh / Getty Images.)

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