A giant bronze statue of Guan Yu, a widely worshipped military general, in China’s Jingzhou has been forced to relocate to a new site, a move that will cost 155 million yuan (US$24 million).

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.

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 ...

workers in the Chinese city of Jingzhou have begun dismantling a 190-foot-tall bronze statue representing the fierce, guandao-brandishing likeliness of Guan Yu, a venerated military general who ...

The giant statue of ancient Chinese general Guan Yu is on display at the Guan Gong Cultural Park in Hubei province. [Photo/IC] The enormous statue of ancient Chinese general Guan Yu has been ...

Chinese officials are shelling out a staggering $24 million to move a 190-foot-tall bronze statue of ancient war god Guan Yu following complaints from residents that it was an eyesore. The statue ...

Image The bronze statue of Guan Yu, a Chinese general from ancient history, in Jingzhou, China. The $224 million project has been singled out by critics of such large-scale monuments.Credit ...

Beijing has ordered the “rectification” of two tourism projects that it branded vain and wasteful, including a gigantic statue of the Chinese war deity Guan Yu more than half the height of the ...

China just unveiled what might be the most epic statue of all time. The 157-foot sculpture of the ancient Chinese warrior-god Guan Yu stands on a 33-foot pedestal designed to look like a warship ...

The animated film was to be a 1,860th birthday present of sorts to his temple’s deity, the famed warrior Guan Yu. Then COVID-19 hit. The film, which was produced in collaboration with the well-known ...

The massive, looming sculpture dedicated to Guan Yu, the Chinese God of War, on the skyline of China’s Jingzhou city is a befitting landmark. An enormous structure, weighing 1320 ton and ...