Reworking ancient ideas

From reviving skills to make lacquerware resembling rhino hide to drawing on porcelain plates, master craftsmen are tweaking their techniques to modern tastes. Wang Kaihao reports in Macao.

Gan Erke is not someone who agrees that Japan is the last word when it comes to lacquerware.

The 61-year-old from Huangshan, in East China's Anhui province, has spent years reviving a technique which gives lacquerware a texture resembling a rhino's hide.