Chinese copies of world monuments
Thalefang Charles | Friday July 15, 2016 10:27
If there is one place inside China that physically captures the perceptions of most people around the world about the Asian superpower, it has to be Shiejie Zhi Chuang also known as The Window of the World in Shenzhen.
Here the Chinese have gone to town (almost literally), made copies of 130 of the most famous tourist attractions in the world and put them in a 48-hectare theme park. A sort of miniature homage to the world’s greatest landmarks.
It is a global village where you can walk from Europe’s old Palaces to Asia’s sacred temples and shrines, to an African wilderness and America’s concrete jungles.
From the imposing replica of the Eiffel Tower and the Fountain of the Observatory next to the Arc de Triomphe, to a typical landscape of Holland, replete with windmills and tulips, to sculptures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln from Mount Rushmore, to the Taj Mahal, The White House, Egypt’s Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza, to Timbuktu, Stonehenge, Rio’s famous Christ the Redeemer icon, to the Masai Mara’s wildebeests migration, Lesotho huts, and Mount Fuji in Japan.
The Window of the World is where China got really fancy in their craft of making copies. Perhaps the Chinese are not only capable of reproducing copies of famous products, which they are notorious for. Maybe they could reproduce an entire town. Walking through miniature streets of Shiejie Zhi Chuang proves they have the wherewithal