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Subject: Pathetic: Ivory will no longer be sold in China Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:50 am
Li Chunke began carving ivory after leaving school at 15.
Today, at 68, this master craftsman is working until the early hours of every morning, trying to finish a 50-centimetre statuette of Buddha on an unforgiving deadline - before China implements a total ban on ivory sales at the end of this month. The art of ivory carving survived even the tumult of China's Cultural Revolution, but he's worried it may soon die out.