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<p>Source: Sinosphere, NYT (12/29/16)<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/world/asia/trump-china-rooster-statue.html">China Warmly Welcomes a Giant Rooster With Trumpian Characteristics</a><br />
<a href="http://cn.nytimes.com/world/20161230/trump-china-rooster-statue/">点击查看本文中文版</a><br />
By MIKE IVES</p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">HONG KONG — President-elect <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump"><span class="s6">Donald J. Trump</span></a>’s golden quiff, bushy eyebrows and preening gestures were immortalized this week in <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"><span class="s6">China</span></a> — though perhaps not in a way that he would like.</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">They appeared on a giant rooster statue, just above some three-toed feet and a blood-red wattle that hangs below a gilded nose and mouth.</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">The statue, which was installed outside a shopping mall in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan, was built to celebrate the coming Year of the Rooster in the Chinese lunar calendar and comes less than a month before Mr. Trump’s inauguration. It is 23 feet tall.</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">Relations between Washington and Beijing have been <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/asia/-china-donald-trump-power.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FChina&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=20&pgtype=collection"><span class="s6">especially jittery</span></a> in recent weeks. The tension is due in large part to Mr. Trump, who belittled China during his presidential campaign and caused a diplomatic stir this month by making clear that he views the central basis for diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing — <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/world/asia/if-donald-trump-pushes-on-taiwan-how-china-could-push-back.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FChina&action=click&contentCollection=world&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=50&pgtype=collection"><span class="s6">known as the One China policy</span></a> — as up for negotiation.</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">But reaction to the rooster on Chinese social media was light and full of positive emoji.</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">Global Times, a state-run tabloid, said on Tuesday that onlookers in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, had praised the statue as a “<a href="http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1025876.shtml"><span class="s6">perfect blend of Chinese and Western cultures</span></a>.”</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">“It’s not bad looking,” Zhang Guoqiang, an employee at the Yihui Japanese Restaurant at the North America N1 Art Shopping Center, where the statue is, said by telephone on Thursday.</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">Inflatable “Trump chicken” replicas were on sale at Taobao, an online shopping bazaar, with a 32-foot version advertised for $1,725.</span></p>
<p class="p13"><span class="s7"><a href="http://www.caselat.com/">Casey Latiolais</a></span><span class="s1">, an illustrator and animator in Seattle, said in a telephone interview that he completed the design in early November for Beijing Reliance Commercial Land, a real estate company that had contacted him through Behance, a website where artists post their portfolios. Mr. Latiolais said the company had asked only for a statue to commemorate the Year of the Rooster and did not mention Mr. Trump.</span></p>
<p class="p13"><span class="s1">Mr. Latiolais, 30, declined to comment on why he had given the rooster Trump-like features. But he said he had been surprised by the size of the final product, which is made of fiberglass.</span></p>
<p class="p13"><span class="s1">“This was way more yuge than I expected,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/caselat/status/814036464757420032"><span class="s6">wrote on Twitter</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="p13"><span class="s1">Mr. Latiolais said that he was also surprised when the statue was “sort of bipartisanly looked at as funny” by his friends and family — including his parents, who voted for Mr. Trump.</span></p>
<p class="p13"><span class="s1">It was not the first time since the American presidential election that people in China had likened Mr. Trump to a bird with notable hair.</span></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">In November, photos by a Chinese journalist of a golden pheasant with a blond pompadour and a red body circulated widely on social media and were <a href="http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/1115/c90000-9141441.html"><span class="s6">published</span></a> online by People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s main newspaper. The bird, which lives in a safari park in the eastern city of Hangzhou, became a star attraction there and a <a href="https://twitter.com/HsiaohanChen/status/809000418004979712"><span class="s6">muse</span></a> for Hsiaohan Chen, a political cartoonist in Taipei.</span></p>
<p class="p20"><a href="https://u.osu.edu/mclc/files/2016/12/trump-roooster-2gtbdov.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-17945"><img style="max-width:100%" class="alignnone wp-image-17945" src="https://u.osu.edu/mclc/files/2016/12/trump-roooster-2gtbdov-300x252.jpg" alt="trump-roooster" /></a></p>
<p class="p12"><span class="s1">Mr. Trump has a penchant for lashing out at his critics, however minor, on Twitter. But as of Thursday afternoon, he had not commented on either bird.</span></p>
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