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May 8, 2012
Before I visited the Changchun World Sculpture Park, its website nearly persuaded me not to.
“Grade AAAA tourist attraction,” a header proclaimed. The online gallery displayed bland stone sculptures with murkily translated titles like “Harmony Continue” and “Picture of Touring in Spring.”
But I was traveling through Changchun anyway, so on a frosty winter afternoon, photographer George Henton and I hailed a taxi in the city’s nondescript downtown. Some 20 minutes later we cleared the turnstiles at the nine-year-old sculpture park’s stadium-like entrance gates.
And I’m glad we bothered.
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