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中国贪官“耻辱堂”
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中国的贪官有了一个新的地方来悬挂他们的头像：“耻辱堂”。

Jason Lee/Reuters一名画工在画一幅前深圳市市长许宗衡的头像，这幅画是为中国艺术家、电影制作人张秉坚的作品“耻辱堂”而创作的，“耻辱堂”展出了中国贪官的肖像画。据《多伦多星报》(Toronto Star)报道，艺术家、电影制作人张秉坚展出了一个装置作品，目前为止包含1,200名中国贪官的肖像画。

张秉坚说，他发现中国的贪腐问题非常严重，这激发了他创作的灵感。他说，我记得自己很震惊、有点愤怒、然后是困惑。

张秉坚对《多伦多星报》说，这个作品意在促使人们思考，为什么这样的事发生在中国？为什么有那么多贪官？我们如何才能制止贪腐行为？

在透明国际(Transparency International)编制的清廉指数(Corruption PerceptionsIndex)中，中国在178个国家中排在第78位。这个指数考察全球多个国家的贪腐现象严重程度。中国最近承诺更加严厉地打击贪污腐败，上个月处决了两名因受贿被定罪的前副市长。

中国官员今年与美国就这一问题进行了探讨，中国的反贿赂顾问队伍有了一定程度的扩充。公众也积极采取行动，推出了跟踪受贿行为的网站，不过政府审查机构一直屏蔽着这类网站。

为开始创作这个作品，张秉坚在中国深圳大芬村雇了20名画工，并建立了一条贪官肖像画组装线，每张肖像画都是0.5米×0.6米。肖像画中的官员都必须是被定罪的贪官。报道说，每张肖像画上都有官员的名字、官衔、罪名和获刑情况。

肖像画都是以粉色为基调，也就是百元人民币的颜色。张秉坚说，这个作品没有终点。

他说，我们还不知道这个作品会以喜剧还是悲剧结局。

Chinese Artist Creates Corruption Hall Of Fame

Chinese corruption convicts have a new place to hang their heads: A Hall of Fame.

Artistand filmmaker Zhang Bingjian opened an installation that, so far,features 1,200 portraits of corrupt Chinese officials, according to areport in the Toronto Star.

Zhang said the inspiration for theproject came when he discovered the depth of the corruption in China. 'Iremember being shocked, a little angry and then confused,' he said.

'Theidea,' Zhang told the Star, 'is to make people think, why is thishappening in China? Why do so many people do it? How do we stop it?'

Chinaranks 78th out of 178 on the Transparency International CorruptionPerceptions Index, a global survey-of-surveys that checks thetemperature of risk in a given country. It has vowed to get tougher oncorruption recently, and last month executed two former vice-mayorsafter they were convicted of bribery.

Chinese officials met overthe course of the year with the U.S. on the topic, and there's amini-boom in anti-bribery consultants there. The people have taken theinitiative as well, launching websites to track bribery, thoughgovernment censors have been blocking them.

To start his mission,Zhang hired 20 artists in the southern city of Dafen, China, and set upan assembly line for the portraits, each of which measures 50 by 60centimeters. An official has to have been convicted for a portrait to bedone. The spine of each piece comes with an official's name, title,crime and sentence received, the report said.

The portraits areall done in shades of pink, the color of the 100 yuan bill China'slargest cash denomination. Zhang said the project doesn't have anendpoint.

'We don't know yet whether this project will have a happy or a tragic ending,' he said.

Samuel Rubenfeld