Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "Zambia opens memorial for Chinese railway workers who died building Africa’s Tazara line" video.

  1. It's remarkable how much this memorial looks like something you would see in China. While younger (under 40) designers, artists and architects in China are quite creative and able to make pleasing and interesting designs, the design of this memorial appears to have been made by an older, state-sanctioned designer educated in the old, Soviet-style school. There's a certain design language that we can see for example on Shanghai's Bund at the mouth of Suzhou creek: A pillar/tower, carved concrete or stone reliefs of workers with big muscles, simple geometric figures reaching for the sky, often a reddish granite common in China. While much newer art and architecture in China is made by younger artists, official monuments are still mostly made by these older people, often professors and academicians who have gotten the state's stamp of approval. As someone who follows modern Chinese art and design, I find this interesting.
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