The improbable monument I created is a United State shape of statue that has a Chinese character on it. The meaning of the Chinese character is love and peace. The idea of this monument is to honor the Chinese’s contributions to the world, especially to the United States. After the independent war, the United States was in debt from borrowing too much fund from France to fight the war. The United States was just an immature country that still relies on other countries’ aid. Then Chinese traders discovered the fertilized American Ginseng in America, which was favored by the ancient Chinese. China’s appetite for the American ginseng helped to pay off America’s debts to France. This created great opportunities for many Americans on the Appalachians and those seeking for wealth and a better life. Many Chinese art and pottery were being brought to America decades later. Chinese also helped a lot of construction works in the United States. The transcontinental railroad was one of the most significant constructions among all. The transcontinental railroad was the main economic income during that period, but hardly anyone know that most of the effort was from the Chinese workers, which is kind of unfair to those hard working Chinese people. Another contribution from the ancient Chinese was the gold mining business. The miners’ fixation on gold changed California’s entire economy. On the other hand, the ways that Chinese contributed to the economic development are paid the heavy tax and provided the cheap labor. Both mining and railroad construction dominated the economics of America in the past centuries. Even in nowadays, all the major life essential products that contributed over the world are still made in china. However, those contributions were not mentioned much in history. So I decided to make a monument to memorial the early Chinese immigrant workers in America as well as all the Chinese contributors in the world. I hope this monument can remind people the significant works that Chinese have done such as the railroad. I place the railroad horizontally from west coast to east coast to represent the influence of Chinese throughout the America. The material I am going to use is rice. Rice is easy to be changed to any shape, and is cheap and convenient to carry around. Rice became very hard and solid when it is dry, and only the appearance looks tough, the body is still not as concrete as it seemed. This is like a reflection of the Chinese products; the resource is easy and cheap to obtained, but the quality are always not as good as it seemed. I plan to place this monument at the San Francisco international airport, because the airplane is the fastest way to transporting now; but train was the first efficient transportation that stimulated the economy of America, and they would not finished it without the help from Chinese.the People who first visit the United Stated will also recognize the important influence of the railroad when they arrived at the airport.
