London wax museum turns Li Bingbing into a white person

By Erik Crouch, January 30, 2015

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Actress and singer Li Bingbing is officially famous enough to have her own wax statue at Madame Tussauds' Wax Museum in London, but she's not yet famous enough for them to do a good job. Or make her look even a little bit, you know, like a Chinese woman.

The wax statue was unveiled as part of London's celebrations of the upcoming Chinese New Year, hence the hanging lanterns in the background. You know what's even more Chinese than lanterns? Chinese people.

That said, while Tussauds' Li Bingbing may not look much like Li herself, it does at least look like a human being, unlike the weird playdough-like specimens that came out of Zhumadian's "Worst Wax Museum in the World" in December:

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