Hong Kong University ordered the removal of the statue Pillar of Shame from its campus in October Hong Kong's oldest university erected security barriers around a statue mourning those killed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site late on Wednesday, in a move that prompted fears that the artwork was to be imminently removed. The 8-metre-high Pillar of Shame by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt has sat on the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus since 1997, the year...
Hong Kong University ordered the removal of the statue Pillar of Shame from its campus in October Hong Kong's oldest university erected security barriers around a statue mourning those killed in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 and posted guards at the site late on Wednesday, in a move that prompted fears that the artwork was to be imminently removed. The 8-metre-high Pillar of Shame by the Danish sculptor Jens Galschiøt has sat on the University of Hong Kong (HKU) campus since 1997, the year...
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