Mermaid Diplomacy Or Trafficking In Women? Denmark Sends Its Most Famous Statue To China

“Denmark’s best-known national emblem, the four-foot-tall bronze statue of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid, [has been moved] from the rocky, quayside location it has occupied since 1913 to a site in Shanghai … [where it] will be the centerpiece of the Danish pavilion in Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo.”