120 miles east of the San Gabriel Valley, with its vast strip malls and temples and restaurants anchoring SoCal’s largest Chinese American community, Chen Weiming builds his tribute to “Tank Man,” the man who stared down a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square
Chen Weiming takes a break from sculpting a military tank replica as part of his life-size monument called"Tank Man" in remembrance of the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Newberry Springs, Calif.
Far from celebrating communism, Chen said he plans to enclose Lenin’s head with a cage to show that his doctrine is imprisoning. On Monday, the eve of the 30th anniversary of the crackdown, Chen will unveil “Tank Man.” He has built the man: 1,300 pounds of concrete, painted a deep bronze, briefcase in the left hand and a shirt in the other, staring ahead at where a tank should be.
Chen, a Chinese native who holds New Zealand citizenship, purchased his artist compound in Newberry Springs, population roughly 3,000, three years ago for $300,000. For eight months out of the year, he builds sculptures for the desert park. During the other four months Chen works “for survival,” he says, making busts and statues that he sells.
Feng’s goal, he says, is to counter the stranglehold the Chinese government holds on information about Tiananmen Square. He was 8 years old when the crackdown happened. He heard about it first on an American radio channel. When he later heard the official government account, he knew “it’s not the truth.”
King was studying in Germany when the Chinese government suppressed the protests at Tiananmen Square and didn’t learn of it until she saw a poster of “Tank Man” several years later.
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