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Martin Luther King memorial made in China
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8715823/Martin-Luther-King-memorial-made-in-China.html
It is perhaps a fitting tribute to racial co-operation. However, the decision to outsource to China the carving of a new national memorial to Martin Luther King has raised eyebrows in the United States.
By Malcolm Moore, Shanghai2:39PM BST 22 Aug 2011
The 30ft-tall statue, which forms the centrepiece of a $120 million (£73 million), four-acre memorial to Dr King, opened to the public on Monday on the National Mall in Washington. It is the only memorial on the Mall that does not honour a president or fallen soldiers.
Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument, the statue shows Dr King emerging from a mountain of Chinese granite with his arms crossed and is called The Stone of Hope.
However, there has been controversy over the choice of Lei Yixin, a 57-year-old master sculptor from Changsha in Hunan province, to carry out the work. Critics have openly asked why a black, or at least an American, artist was not chosen and even remarked that Dr King appears slightly Asian in Mr Lei's rendering.
Mr Lei, who has in the past carved two statues of Mao Tse-tung, one of which stands in the former garden of Mao Anqing, the Chinese leader's son, carried out almost all of the work in Changsha.
More than 150 granite blocks, weighing some 1,600 tons, were then shipped from Xiamen to the port of Baltimore, and reassembled by a team of 100 workmen, including ten Chinese stone masons brought over specifically for the project.
Dr King's son, Martin Luther King III, has defended the outsourcing.
"I have seen probably 50 sculptures of my dad, and I would say 47 of them are not good reflections," he said, to USA Today."This particular artist: he has done a good job."
However, Ed Dwight, a sculptor in Denver, said Dr King would be "turning over in his grave" if he knew his likeness had been conceived by someone living under a Communist regime.
"He would rise up from his grave and walk into their offices and go, 'How dare you?'"
Mr Lei was chosen after the memorial's fund-raisers observed him at work at a stone carver's symposium in Minnesota. Amid the criticism, the architects in charge of the project said that they had visited Mr Lei's studio in Changsha to find he had already carved several versions of the work.
He has also prepared a bronze bust of Barack Obama which he intends to gift to the president.
The new memorial is next to the Lincoln Memorial, on whose steps Dr King delivered his "I have a dream" speech in 1963, a defining moment in the American Civil Rights movement. The statue will be officially dedicated on Sunday, the anniversary of the speech, but the park has opened in advance to visitors. Around 400,000 people are expected in the run-up to Sunday's event.
The statue, meanwhile, will be 11ft taller than the statues in the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials. It is unclear how much money was saved by making it in China.
《每日电讯报》 马丁路德金的纪念碑由中国制造
核心提示：美国决定把马丁・路德・金的国家纪念碑外包给中国来制作虽然引起了一些争议，但是金先生的后裔和捐资人都表示满意。
原文：Martin Luther King memorial made in China
作者：Malcolm Moore 发自上海
发表：2011年8月22日
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这或许是个与种族合作相匹配纪念碑。 然而，美国决定把马丁・路德・金的国家纪念碑外包给中国来制作的决定还是吸引了人们的注意。
周一， 这个价值1。2亿美元、30英尺高的马丁・路德・金雕塑成为占地4英亩华盛顿国家广场中的新地标对大众开放了。 它是在这个广场上仅有的一座不是用来纪念总统或牺牲士兵的雕塑。
此雕塑矗立在华盛顿纪念碑的旁边， 金先生从一大块中国花岗岩中抱着肘浮现出来， 这块花岗岩被称为“希望之石”。
然而， 选择雷宜锌（音），一位57岁来自湖南省长沙市的雕塑大师来制作这一雕塑则引起了争议， 批评者们公开质问为什么不选择一个黑人艺术家或至少是一个美国艺术家来制作，甚至觉察到马丁路德金被雷师傅塑得有些像亚洲人
雷先生过去雕刻过两个毛泽东的塑像， 其中一个在毛岸青以前的花园里， 他几乎所有的作品都在长沙完成。
超过150块花岗岩石块， 重约1600吨， 被从厦门航运到美国巴尔的摩港， 由上百名工队伍组装， 其中还包括十名专门为此项目而从中国来的泥瓦匠。
马丁路德金的儿子—马丁路德金三世则支持这一外包。
“我看过大概50个我父亲的雕塑， 但是我要说其中47个都没能表现出他的精神，”他对今日美国说。 "这位艺术家， 他做的很好。"
然而， 一位来自丹佛的雕塑家Ed Dwight说，如果马丁路德金的在天之灵知道他的样子在被生活在共产主义政权下的中国人所构思， 他一定会 "在坟墓里气得打滚"。 " 他会从坟墓中站起来，走到他们的办公室说，"你们怎么敢这么做?"
纪念碑基金捐助者们在明尼苏达的一个石雕座谈会上见到了雷师傅之后就选中了他。 在批判声中，负责此工作建筑师们说他们曾经在长沙参观过雷师傅的工作室， 发现他已经雕刻了本纪念品的好几个版本。
他还准备制作一个奥巴马的铜制半身像， 并打算当作礼物送给总统。 这个新的纪念碑紧靠着林肯纪念堂， 马丁路德金继承了林肯的精神，在1963年发表了 "我有一个梦想" 的演讲， 这是美国民权运动中的决定性时刻之一。 这个雕塑将会在周日， 演讲纪念日， 正式揭幕， 但此公园已提前向游客开放。 预计会有大约40万人准备来参观周日的仪式。
同时， 此雕塑将比在林肯和杰弗逊纪念馆中的雕塑高11英尺。 在中国制造到底能节省多少钱则不清楚。 |
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