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The World Turned Upside Down is a sculpture by theTurner Prize-winning artistMark Wallinger, on Sheffield Street, London, within the campus of theLondon School of Economics. The nameWorld Turned Upside Down comes froma 17th-century English ballad.[1] The sculpture, measuring 13 feet (4 m) in diameter, features aglobe resting on itsNorth Pole and was unveiled in March 2019. It reportedly cost over £200,000,[2] which was funded by alumni donations.
The artwork attracted controversy for showing the island ofTaiwan as a sovereign entity, rather than as part of thePeople’s Republic of China.[3] After dueling protests[4][5] by students from both the PRC and ROC and reactions by third party observers (which included the President of Taiwan,[6] Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs[7] and the co-chairs of the British-Taiwanese All-Party Parliamentary Group in the House of Commons[8]) the university decided later that year (2019) that it would retain the original design which chromatically displayed the PRC and ROC as different entities but with the addition of an asterisk beside the name of Taiwan and a corresponding placard that clarified the institution's position regarding the controversy.[9][10][11][12]
A group of students repeatedly vandalised the globe for its omission of thestate of Palestine, a non-member observer state in theUnited Nations. The globe featuresJerusalem marked as the capital ofIsrael, instead of the internationally recognised capital ofTel-Aviv (including by the UK).[13]
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