Yahoo

China built a massive 190-foot statue of a god of war that locals don't like. Now it'll cost more than $20 million to move the hulking work of art.

Chinese officials are wincing at the hefty $20 million cost of moving a 190-foot-tall bronze statue. An order was issued in December 2020 to relocate the colossal monument of Chinese warrior-god Guan ...
Sixth Tone

God of War Statue Has to Go, Jingzhou Officials Say

A colossal 1,200-ton bronze statue of Chinese warrior-god Guan Yu that enjoyed a brief bout of global notoriety in 2016 will be moved from its current location in a park in the ancient central city of ...
Hyperallergic

Religious Extremists Pressure Indonesian Temple to Cover Giant Statue of a God

Last week, a 98-foot-tall statue of the Chinese deity Guan Yu was covered with an enormous sheet in the Indonesian town of Tuban, in East Java. The statue, erected at a cost of 2.5 billion Indonesian ...
Sixth Tone

Moving a Colossal Statue Is Costing Millions. Officials Are Angry.

The statue of Chinese war god Guan Yu is being met with resistance from the authorities over the astronomical costs involved in its relocation. China’s anti-graft agency on Monday urged regulators to ...
Inverse

This Colossal Chinese Guan Yu Statue Is Ridiculously Majestic

China is renowned for building stupidly-large statues, but it’s really outdone itself with the latest monument to revered general turned war-god of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Guan Yu. It’s not the ...