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A Big Wall Falls in China to Make Room for Mickey
米老鼠走進哈爾濱冰燈節
For decades, locals in this frigid outpost south of Siberia shaved and chipped and hacked away at big blocks of ice to create China’s most popular wintertime tourist attraction.
幾十年來，這方南西伯利亞寒地的冰雕藝術創造了中國最受歡迎的冬季游覽勝地。
Rising among the barren trees, the sculptures of the Harbin Ice Lantern Festival took the shapes of iconic Chinese monuments: the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, sacred Buddhist mountains.
在光禿的樹丫間，哈爾濱冰燈節的雕塑頗具中國特色：長城，紫禁城，神圣的佛教名山。
They took those shapes, that is, until this winter, when in sauntered Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Winnie the Pooh.
冰雕的造型諸如此類，直到這個冬天，米奇老鼠，唐老鴨和維尼熊走進了冰燈節。
What is perhaps the world’s most famous ice festival has become another of the world’s Disney theme parks, with a Disney licensing company taking over operations from the local Communist government. It is the first time a private company has run the ice festival.
隨著一家迪士尼授權公司從共產黨政府中接手了冰燈節的操辦，這個世界上最著名的冰燈節可能會變成另外一個迪士尼主題公園。這是首次由私人公司操辦冰燈節。
Snow White has replaced snow dragons. Children wander through the frozen hallways of Aladdin’s Castle instead of a Qing dynasty palace. “It’s a Small World” plays in one corner of the park. (What better theme music for globalization?)
白雪公主替代了龍。孩子們穿梭于阿拉丁神殿的走廊之間，而非身置清代宮殿之中。公園的角落播放著“世界真小”。（還有比這更好的全球化主題曲嗎？）
“It was too stodgy,” Qi Juwei, 51, the organizer of this year’s event, said of the old festival. “You can’t keep putting the same light in the same block of ice.”
“以前的活動太平庸了，”今年活動的組織者51歲的齊居偉（音譯）說。“你忍不住想把同一盞燈放在同一塊冰上。”
Mr. Qi is a native of Harbin who immigrated to Japan in the 1990s. (His legal Japanese name is Saito Miyori.) At age 12, he stood here in Zhaolin Park and marveled at an ice replica of the Yellow Crane Tower, an ancient pagoda. A few years ago, as vice president of Rendez-Vous, a Shanghai-based company that licenses Disney products in Asia, he gazed across the park and imagined workers stacking blocks of ice to build Cinderella’s castle, Mickey’s house and a Pirates of the Caribbean frigate.
齊先生是哈爾濱本地人，90年代時移居日本（日文名字Saito Miyori）。12歲時，他曾對兆麟公園的冰雕黃鶴樓嘖嘖稱奇。幾年前，作為Rendez-Vous（一家以上海為基地，經授權在亞洲銷售迪士尼產品的公司）的副主管，他在兆麟公園流連忘返，想象著工人們雕刻出灰姑娘的城堡，米奇老鼠的家和加勒比海盜。
