Ai Weiwei's Blog av Weiwei (Artist) Ai

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<b>Manifestos and immodest proposals from China''s most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009.</b><p>In 2006, even though he could barely type, China''s most famous artist started blogging. For more than three years, Ai Weiwei turned out a steady stream of scathing social commentary, criticism of government policy, thoughts on art and architecture, and autobiographical writings. He wrote about the Sichuan earthquake (and posted a list of the schoolchildren who died because of the government''s “tofu-dregs engineering”), reminisced about Andy Warhol and the East Village art scene, described the irony of being investigated for “fraud” by the Ministry of Public Security, made a modest proposal for tax collection. Then, on June 1, 2009, Chinese authorities shut down the blog. This book offers a collection of Ai''s notorious online writings translated into English—the most complete, public documentati