Shipment to China

{{Short description|Sculpture by Hai Ying Wu in Tacoma, Washington, U.S.}}

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| caption = The sculpture in Prairie Line Trail, Tacoma, Washington, 2023

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Shipment to China is an abstract sculpture by Hai Ying Wu, installed in Tacoma, Washington's Prairie Line Trail, in the United States.{{Cite news |date=October 17, 2017 |title=Tacoma can play with the big cities now. It has its own linear park |work=The News Tribune}} It has 100 bronze boxes on a 1909 train car.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-17 |title=20 years later, Tacoma public artwork finds exhibit space at Foss Waterway Seaport |url=https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/20-years-later-tacoma-public-artwork-finds-exhibit-space-at-foss-waterway-seaport/2429113/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Tacoma Daily Index |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816035945/https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/20-years-later-tacoma-public-artwork-finds-exhibit-space-at-foss-waterway-seaport/2429113/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |date=September 25, 2015 |title=Tacoma sculpture about Chinese railroad workers found ... |work=The News Tribune}} According to Wu, the work "shows the bitterness of the Chinese experience in America during that time, for the railroad built by their efforts was the same transportation used to carry them out of Tacoma".{{Cite web |last=Greyhavens |first=Tim |date=November 21, 2017 |title=Tacoma reckons with its racist past {{!}} Crosscut |url=https://crosscut.com/2017/11/tacoma-racist-past-art-healing-chinese-reconciliation |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Crosscut.com |language=en |archive-date=2023-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523000722/https://crosscut.com/2017/11/tacoma-racist-past-art-healing-chinese-reconciliation |url-status=live }}

According to the Prairie Line Trail's website, the sculpture was donated by the Chinese Reconciliation Project Foundation, restored and installed by the City of Tacoma, and funded by the Washington State Heritage Capital Projects Fund.{{Cite web|url=https://www.prairielinetrail.org/site/shipment-to-china-|title=Shipment to China|publisher=Prairie Line Trail (City of Tacoma)|accessdate=June 3, 2023}}