Shipment to China

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Shipment to China
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The sculpture in Prairie Line Trail, Tacoma, Washington, 2023
Shipment to China
Artist Hai Ying Wu
Medium Bronze sculpture
Location Tacoma, Washington, U.S.
Coordinates 47°14′53″N122°26′13.5″W / 47.24806°N 122.437083°W / 47.24806; -122.437083

Shipment to China is an abstract sculpture by Hai Ying Wu, installed in Tacoma, Washington's Prairie Line Trail, in the United States. [1] It has 100 bronze boxes on a 1909 train car. [2] [3] According to Wu, the work "shows the bitterness of the Chinese experience in America during that time, for the railroad built by their efforts was the same transportation used to carry them out of Tacoma". [4]

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According to the Prairie Line Trail's website, the sculpture was donated by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation, restored and installed by the City of Tacoma, and funded by the Washington State Heritage Capital Projects Fund. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Tacoma can play with the big cities now. It has its own linear park". The News Tribune. October 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ "20 years later, Tacoma public artwork finds exhibit space at Foss Waterway Seaport". Tacoma Daily Index . September 17, 2015. Archived from the original on August 16, 2022. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Tacoma sculpture about Chinese railroad workers found ...". The News Tribune. September 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ Greyhavens, Tim (November 21, 2017). "Tacoma reckons with its racist past | Crosscut". Crosscut.com . Archived from the original on May 23, 2023. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Shipment to China". Prairie Line Trail (City of Tacoma). Retrieved June 3, 2023.


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