Chen Weiming ( zh, c=陳維明, born c. 1970) is a Chinese-born New Zealand artist and sculptor. Chen was commissioned by the New Zealand government to create a 3-metre bronze statue of

Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineering, mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa people, Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the Timeline of M ...

in 1991. In 2008, he created a 6.4 metres high replica of the Goddess of Democracy that stood in the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...

until 23 December 2021.faz.net
''Hongkonger Denkmalsturm zu Weihnachten''
/ref> In June 2021 and June 2022, Chen unveiled a pair of 30-foot-high sculptures at Yermo's open-air High Desert art centre called Liberty Sculpture Park. Chen created a large-scale relief representation of the

Tiananmen massacre The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between t ...

in 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the massacre. The ''Tiananmen massacre'' relief and the Goddess of Democracy replica were both displayed in Hong Kong during protests in 2010. Chen was born in

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, China, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1988. He holds a New Zealand passport as well as permanent residence in the United States, and lives in both countries. In 2011, Chen traveled to Syria to fight alongside

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rebels fighting in the Syrian uprising.

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* Living people Chinese emigrants to New Zealand 1950s births 20th-century New Zealand sculptors 20th-century New Zealand male artists 21st-century New Zealand sculptors 21st-century New Zealand male artists Year of birth missing (living people) {{sculptor-stub

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