| 1 | There are not enough trained younger men and women ready to take over from older experts. | |
| 2 | "This is a starveling field, " he says. | |
| 3 | He is also one of a dwindling breed of Kunqu artists. | |
| 4 | Its few diplomats are good, but terribly overstretched. | |
| 5 | No further financial problem arose, but we once couldn't make both ends meet ... |