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"Westerners actually really like our martial arts heroes and kung-fu," said VeVe's brand manager Raymond Chou. Marketing technology company VeVe, which is in charge of selling the NFTs, said the stories of the puppet heroes resonates with a younger crowd and could draw in foreign fans of super hero films, such as those based on characters from Marvel Comics. The company declined to reveal the profit-sharing with the market platform, but said prices for each set started at $40, translating to generated revenue of at least $1.2 million, since their listing in early February. Pili said four of their puppet characters were made into digital versions and 30,000 sets have been sold as NFTs.
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The puppets are painstakingly created, and expertly maneuvered during the filming of the shows, with costumes that are sewn on and strands of hair meticulously put in place. Pili has thousands of glove puppet characters, a traditional part of Taiwanese street entertainment culture spinning colourful and highly stylised stories of heroic courage and romance, often with martial arts. "Instead of sitting on the sidelines, the best approach is to go ahead and understand fully what's going on. "The sort of imagination everyone nowadays has for the online world is developing so fast that we are almost unable to grasp it," said Seika Huang, Pili's brand director. Pili International Multimedia, which makes Taiwan's longest-running television show featuring the puppets at its studio in central Taiwan's Yunlin County, says it wants to use NFTs as another source of revenue. "I haven't completed passing on the art so I can't retire," he said.NFTs are crypto assets representing a digital item such as an image, video, or even land in virtual worlds, with prices of some rising so fast last year that speculators around the world sometimes "flipped" them within days for a profit. Puppet master Chen vows to continue performing and teaching as long as he still has the strength. "Now that I have kids of my own, I bring them to temple fairs and watch outdoor puppet shows. They are experiencing what I experienced in my childhood," he said. Puppet fan Chiang Chi-feng, 41, attended the festival last month with a sense of nostalgia. Taiwanese authorities are trying to promote the traditional craft, organizing an annual puppet festival in Yunlin county. Feature Image: Young innocent Taiwanese Lady targeted for execution in Taiwan by Xi Jinping invasion of Communist Liberation Army Forces, hellbent on enslaving the Taiwanese people and killing all resistance to Communism, in much the same way Communist ‘Putin Russia’ cruelly murdered men, women, children and babies in the Ukraine, which Xi Jinping approved.
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"I want to learn how to operate the puppets and to make the movements," he said. Student Hung Wei-heng, 10, said he was interested in learning puppetry because it was "very cool". "Like the master, I don't want the traditional puppetry to disappear," he said.ĭozens of students of all ages attend Chen's classes at the government-funded Puppetry Art Centre in Taipei every Saturday. "My grandfather actually told me to find 'a better job' but I chose this career because I am interested," the 32-year-old told AFP. They told me they liked it and that puppetry is awesome," says Chen.Ĭhen's current apprentice Chen Wei-you is part of a family troupe that runs around 150 puppet shows a year. "I was worried that people might not understand the film, but young people did, even if they hadn't watched Budaixi before. Read also: Unveiling lessons of life with grass puppetsĬhen acknowledges the challenges facing the ancient craft, saying people have less time to spare to watch the shows.īut he has taken heart from the positive response to the documentary which premiered in Taiwan last month, directed by local filmmaker Yang Li-chou over a period of 10 years.
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"I used my name to open a new troupe because I didn't want the traditional craft to disappear."
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"There were only two or three traditional troupes left," he told AFP.