On a paper trail

The past 12 years have seen Liu Tong grow from a beginner in the paper craft into an acclaimed origami artist, Xing Wen reports.

In 2006, Liu Tong, who was then studying in Germany, saw a man on a bus make a paper rose and hand it to a stranger. And this marked the start of the then 21-year-old Chinese student's interest in origami.

Last month, Liu held his latest solo exhibition of origami art installations at the Eslite Bookstore in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, where he featured works inspired by Le Petit Prince - one of the most-translated books in the world.