This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
AI WEIWEITo the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it’s a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: “You and I are divided.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
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And who is going to win the competition if U.S. cannot hold a strong ideology? And even the U.S. would’ve lost the ground to win.
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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
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I never had a sense of home.
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I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it’s very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
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