Tan Chwee Lian picks up a small paddle, her finger resting on a groove worn into the wood over 70 years of making Buddhist and Taoist deity statues in her shop. But with competition from mass-produced items and lacking heirs to take up the trade, the craft is in danger of dying out.
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