{{Short description|Sculpture in Shanghai, China}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox artwork | image = The Bund, Shanghai, China (December 2015) - 20.JPG | title = Bund Bull | artist = [[Arturo Di Modica]] | year = 2010 | type = [[Bronze]] | height_metric = 320 <!-- | inch = 126--> | city = [[Shanghai]], [[China]] | museum = [[The Bund (Shanghai)|The Bund]] }} The '''''Shanghai Bull''''', the '''''Bund Financial Bull''''' or the '''''Bund Bull''''' are monikers associated with a derivative of [[Arturo Di Modica]]'s ''[[Charging Bull]]'' installed in late April 2010 and unveiled on [[The Bund]] in [[Shanghai]] on May 15, 2010. Although the {{convert|13227.74|lbs|kg|adj=on}} work of art is said to have the same height, length and weight as the [[New York City]] ''Charging Bull'', actually it is {{convert|17.1|ft|m|adj=on}} long and {{convert|10.5|ft|m|adj=on}} tall. The bull is reddish, as a tribute to the country that commissioned the work. It leans to right instead of the left like ''Charging Bull'' and has a more menacing tail.<ref name=SGaBfIOS>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703757504575193640923568542|title=Shanghai Gets a Bull for Its Own Shop: Reddish, Right-Leaning Version of Wall Street Sculpture Readies for Year of the Tiger Debut|accessdate=April 22, 2010|date=April 20, 2010|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|author=Areddy, James T.|page=C2}}</ref> The Bull's popularity has been a problem for local authorities.
==Description== The bull is referred to by many names in the press with one claiming that local dignitaries tend to call it the ''Bund Financial Bull''.<ref name=SSC>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/05/16/shanghai%E2%80%99s-sacred-cow/|title=Shanghai's Sacred Cow|accessdate=May 18, 2010|date=May 16, 2010|work=The Wall Street Journal|author=Areddy, James T.}}</ref> Many stories use the moniker the ''Bund Bull''.<ref name=SSC/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/994a4886-5274-11df-8b09-00144feab49a|author=Waldmeir, Patti|title= Determined to be biggest and best|accessdate=May 18, 2010|date=April 30, 2010|work=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref> Some stories refer to it as the ''Shanghai Bull'' to differentiate it from the artist's other more famous bull in New York.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/04/19/shanghai-stampede-a-bull-on-the-bund/|title=Shanghai Stampede: A Bull on the Bund|accessdate=May 18, 2010|date=April 19, 2010|work=The Wall Street Journal|author=Areddy, James T.}}</ref>
[[File:Bund Bull (5014524651).jpg|thumb|left|The Bund Bull at night, 2010]] Di Modica credits both [[Western culture|Western]] and [[Chinese culture]]s as influence on the work, noting that the "Charging Bull" and the [[Chinese zodiac]]'s [[Ox (zodiac)|Ox]] served as inspiration.<ref name=SusvoWSb>{{cite web|title=Shanghai unveils 'stronger' version of Wall Street bull|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7IeMcf9_XCus6OA6PF_W7U1WBuA|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124225929/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7IeMcf9_XCus6OA6PF_W7U1WBuA|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 24, 2013|accessdate=May 17, 2010|date=May 15, 2010}}</ref> The bull is symbolic of perseverance, diligence and wealth in Chinese culture.<ref name=BbcffCfm/> The animal's confident stance represented a bullish and prosperous future for the rising financial center, Di Modica said. "It must be strong. It's about a strong nation," he says. "If you observe the tail of the bull, the tail is spirally pointing to the sky, meaning a uplifting financial trend," he said. The bull had been commissioned to be twice the size of [[Wall Street]]'s ''Charging Bull''.<ref name=SusvoWSb/> The city also requested a bull that was younger and stronger than New York City's bull to symbolise "the energy of Shanghai's economy", Zhou Wei, the head of [[Huangpu district]] said. "That's why the head of the Bund's bull looks up while the Wall Street Bull looks downward," he said.
The bronze bull was crafted in [[Wyoming]] by a team of 40 that made five identical versions.<ref name=SGaBfIOS/> At {{convert|2.5|m|ft}} tall, {{convert|3.3|m|ft}} long and 2.5 tonnes (2.7 tons), it is the same size as the Wall Street version, but "redder, younger and stronger" Di Modica said.<ref name=SusvoWSb/><ref name=BbcffCfm/> The work was supposed to have been completed before the Chinese year of the [[Ox (zodiac)|Ox]] ended in February 2010.<ref name=SGaBfIOS/> The Bull was installed the week before the [[Expo 2010 Shanghai China]], referred to as the Shanghai World Expo, which opened on May 1.<ref name=BsSc>{{cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6dc77474-4f39-11df-b8f4-00144feab49a|author=Waldmeir, Patti|title=Bull signals Shanghai charge|work=[[Financial Times]]|accessdate=May 17, 2010|date=April 24, 2010}}</ref> Sometimes speaking in Italian,<ref name=SSC/> Di Modica attended the unveiling on May 15, 2010, on the Bund waterfront.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=11023|title=Shanghai unveils own version of 'Charging Bull'|accessdate=May 17, 2010|date=May 16, 2010|publisher=BusinessWorld Publishing Corporation.}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==Location== [[File:20160519 Shanghai Bund Bull.jpg|thumb|The sculpture and the [[HSBC Building, the Bund|HSBC building]] in 2016]]
It is located in the Bund, which is considered to be a location that symbolizes the era of European [[colonialism|colonial]] [[capitalism]] in China, and it will be adjacent to the [[Huangpu River]] in Shanghai's [[Pudong]] district, which is a dynamically growing economic development zone.<ref name=BsSc/> The bull is located in a square with four stock price screens across the river from the city's financial district.<ref name=SGaBfIOS/> The newly opened square is being called Bund Financial Square.<ref name=BbcffCfm>{{cite web|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-05/17/c_13298106.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610013147/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-05/17/c_13298106.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 10, 2011|title=Bund bull charges forward for China's financial market|accessdate=May 18, 2010|date=May 17, 2010|publisher=Xinhua News Agency|work=[[China Daily]]|first=Guanqun|last=Wang }}</ref>
Like its Wall Street counterpart, the Bund Bull's [[Bull#Reproductive anatomy|male genitalia]] is rumored to produce good luck when stroked.<ref name=SSC/> Despite a constant security, visitors attempt to climb the bull to pray for good luck and hang bags on the horns while taking pictures. Eventually, the cordoning was discontinued due to the strong public desire to be close to the bull.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.eastday.com/e/100724/u1a5350586.html|title=The Bund, its bull and bad behavior|accessdate=May 28, 2011|date=July 24, 2010|work=[[Shanghai Daily]]|publisher=English.Eastday.Com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320091907/http://english.eastday.com/e/100724/u1a5350586.html|archivedate=March 20, 2012|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|China|Visual arts}} * [[2010 in art]] * [[Cows on Parade]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Commons category-inline|Bund Bull}}
{{Public art in Shanghai}} {{coord missing|Shanghai}}
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