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Lei Yixin
Chinese sculptor
In this Chinese name, the family name is Lei (雷).
Lei Yixin (born 1954) is a Chinese sculptor. Lei designed the Stone of Hope, the statue of Martin Luther King Jr.
at the King Memorial near the United States National Mall.
Childhood and education
Lei was born to a family of scholars in Changsha, Hunan, China.
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Lei was one of millions of "bourgeois educated youth" sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. As a way to develop a skill other than farming during the seven years he spent toiling in the fields, Lei started drawing.
His diary became his scrapbook, with a few lines of comments of his drawings. When Lei applied to college, he submitted the diary as his portfolio.
Lei was among the first class of students after the Cultural Revolution to be able to go to art school in 1978; he graduated in 1982.[1]
Career
Lei first found work in a publishing company as a draughtsman, but was spotted by a local government