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 ...

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.

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 ...

And now he’s an Autobot too, thanks to Chinese student Bi Heng’s $40,000 sculpture. The statue of Guan Yu, made from the remains of a 25-year-old military service truck from the People’s ...

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 ...

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 Chinese central government said that the ... around five miles from its current location. At the time of the Guan Yu statue's construction, it joined the leagues of other mega-statues in ...

But the most intimidating of all Guan Yu statues is the one in Guan Yu Park in Jingzhou, China, built in 2016. It stands 120 feet tall and weighs more than 1,300 tons. Sometimes the statues are ...

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 ...

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