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Title: The controversy between Taiwan and China on LSE sculpture "The World Upside Down"[edit]

The Sculpture[edit]

The World Upside Down is a sculpture crafted by the Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Wallinger and on the campus of the London School of Economics (LSE), outside LSE’s student activity centre[1].

The controversy[edit]

[img] Originally, Taiwan was illustrated as a country on the map in pink, which is different from China in yellow, and a red dot marked as the country's capital, Taipei. After a protest of a group of Chinese students, LSE called a meeting and decided to request the artist to change the colour of Taiwan as if it was a part of China and change the mark of Taipei to a city instead of the capital of a country[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].

As the decision was made, a London-based NGO, Formosa Salon, initiated an online petition against the decision[10] and appealed LSE to recognise the fact that Taiwan and China are two independent countries and to maintain the current status of the sculpture[11].

The petition was claimed to have gathered more than 1,600 signature in the first 16 hours [12] and more than 10,000 signatures before the petition was closed[13]. It was reported in a Taiwanese newspaper that the number of signatures has reached 7,000 roughly one day before the proposed petition closure time[14].

The petition was followed by an official open letter[15] from the Minister of Foreign Affairs Taiwan, Joseph Wu, to the Director of LSE, Dame Minouche Shafik. The open letter emphasised a few key facts that the LSE should consider:

...Taiwan is a sovereign democratic country, not part of any other....The British government refers to Taiwan, and conducts relations with Taiwan, as “Taiwan,” period. On behalf of Taiwan, I thus urge you and your institution not to change the depiction of Taiwan on the sculpture.

The President of Taiwan, Dr Tsai Ing-wen, who is an graduate alumnus of LSE, also commented:[9][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

We are a sovereign independent country. We won't disappear on the surface of the earth.

Nigel Evans MP and Lord Rogan, the Co-Chairs of the British-Taiwanese All-Party Parliamentary Group in the House of Commons, also wrote a letter to the Director of LSE, addressing that: [24][25][26][27][28][29]

Depicting Taiwan as part of China is inaccurate and misleading as Taiwan has never been a part of the People's Republic of China. It is also contrary to the UK government's longstanding policy to refer to Taiwan as simply 'Taiwan', as Mark Field, Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific at the Foreign Commonwealth Office, publicly stated on 10 July 2018....As a model institution of higher education in the UK that prizes academic freedom and freedom of speech, LSE should not succumb to this pressure as doing so would undermine these democratic principles and would constitute political interference in the academic sphere.

Several post-it notes were stuck to the sculpture in response to a wave of voluntary actions[30].

Post-it notes on the sculpture "I am with Taiwan. It should be TAIWAN (only)", "I'm Taiwanese, I stand for Taiwan's INDEPENDENCE" and "Taiwan belongs to Taiwanese"
A post-it note on the sculpture "Taiwan is Taiwan"
The sculpture with an LSE news released two years ago when Dr Tsai Ing-wen was elected as President of Taiwan
  1. ^ ""The World Turned Upside Down" - LSE unveils new sculpture by Mark Wallinger". March 26, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  2. ^ "LSE considers altering sculpture to show Taiwan as part of China after student pressure". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  3. ^ "Wallinger's upside-down globe outside LSE angers Chinese students for portraying Taiwan as an independent state". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  4. ^ "Taipei complains about London university's decision to alter artwork and portray Taiwan as part of China". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  5. ^ "倫敦政經學院的地球儀點燃兩岸學生主權論戰". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  6. ^ "London School of Economics in a world of trouble over globe artwork". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  7. ^ "蔡英文母校的地球儀「台灣變中國的」，留學生募資登報「挑戰一中原則」". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  8. ^ "倫敦政經學院公共藝術將把台灣劃為中國 外交部抗議". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  9. ^ a b "倫敦政經學院地球儀爭議 凸顯西方在兩岸主權爭論前的尷尬". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  10. ^ "LSE公共藝術品事件聲明連署（中英文版）Petition regarding "The World Turned Upside Down" in LSE (Mandarin & English)". Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  11. ^ "地球儀風暴》倫敦政經學院矮化台灣　台灣英國留學生投書英媒，發起連署抗議". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  12. ^ "我們在發動連署16小時後..." Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  13. ^ "2019/4/5 23:30更新". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  14. ^ "倫敦LSE裝置藝術矮化台灣　台生連署破7千人". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  15. ^ "Taiwan Foreign Minister writes open letter protesting LSE's decision to change depiction of Taiwan on sculpture". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  16. ^ "母校倫敦政經學院矮化台灣 蔡英文：我們不會從地球消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  17. ^ "台灣遭母校矮化！重申主權獨立　蔡英文：我們不會從地球上消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  18. ^ "總統母校矮化台灣　蔡英文：我們不會從地球上消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  19. ^ "母校將兩岸標同色 蔡英文：台灣不會從地球上消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  20. ^ "回應母校屈服一中原則！蔡英文：台灣不會從地球消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  21. ^ "蔡總統：我們是獨立國家不會從地球消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  22. ^ "母校屈服一中　蔡英文：「台灣是主權獨立國家」不會從地球上消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  23. ^ "倫敦政經學院地圖「一中」 蔡英文：台灣不會從地球上消失". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  24. ^ "倫敦政經學院公共藝術品爭議 英議員聯名關切". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  25. ^ "台灣不屬於中國！ 英國會議員聯名要求小英母校更改". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  26. ^ "U.K. parliamentarians step into debate on Taiwan's name on statue". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  27. ^ "Nigel Evans MP & Lord Rogan, Co-chairs of @TaiwanAPPG released an open letter to @lsenews Dame Minouche Shafik urging LSE to reconsider its decision as artistic freedom and freedom of expression should not be altered for political consideration". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  28. ^ "U.K. parliamentarians step into debate on Taiwan's name on statue". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  29. ^ "英國國會議員致LSE校長要求維持台灣主權的信函公開！". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
  30. ^ "we have decided to initiate the first wave of voluntary actions: "#TWP - #TaiwanProtest"". Retrieved April 7, 2019.
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