People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
AI WEIWEIChina restricts the society’s freedom of speech. The Communist Party imposes these limits because it lacks confidence towards the future and has no ideals.
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People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It’s an unbearable condition.
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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market.
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Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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You don’t have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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Today, the general masses in this society are in this political-social condition that really encourages people to become rich and become a star and be unique.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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You’re still being looked at as somebody who – it’s a very complicated issue.
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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
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If I really have nothing to do, I just watch my cats, take some photos, and go back to my personal blog.
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Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.
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Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don’t act, then the result is very clear.
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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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