2012 NOBEL PRIZES Mo Yan win ‘denigrates’ Nobel lit prize: artist The Swedish Academy’s choice of Mo Yan for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature has been slammed by Chinese dissidents and regime critics, including artist Ai Weiwei who called the decision “a joke”. READ [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ai Weiwei’
CHINA: Spreading Censorship Over Art
China Cracks Down on Ai Wei Wei Protege Zhao Zhao Life for modern artists in China is not easy. Imprisonment, hefty fines and travel bans are just some of the intimidation tactics the state police use to silence those critical of the regime. But Beijing artist Zhao Zhao, once an assistant to artist [...]
Ai Weiwei … see the censorship live, in your own screen.
Experience a trip to the People’s Republic of China .. just click the screen shot and try to follow the links.[...]
Are American Universities the Quislings of China?
As more American universities open campuses in China, they’re bending to the country’s censorship rules. Isaac Stone Fish reports from Beijing. (excerpted and adapted) UC Berkeley announced on Nov. 11 that it plans to open a campus in Shanghai. Stanford Center will open in P[...]
China:Ai Weiwei supporters strip off as artist faces ‘porn’ investigation
Nude photographs posted in riposte to Chinese police interrogation of videographer for picture of Ai and women naked from the Guardian When artist Ai Weiwei disappeared, supporters made online appeals for his return. When authorities handed him a £1.5m tax bill, they sent money to help pay it. And [...]
CHINA: Ai Weiwei Interview
from Spiegel SPIEGEL: Last week you made a €970,000 ($1.3 million) payment to the bank account of the Chinese tax authorities. You consider it to be a kind of guarantee, a deposit. Do they consider it to be an admission of guilt? Ai:I cannot speak for them. But I can tell you a lot about […[...]
October 12th, 2011 - 7:53 am § in Misc.
CHINA: Spin, “Superiority is the not the word we use. The Chinese are very modest.”
Excerpts from an interview with vice minister of foreign affairs, Fu Ying, Der Spiegel aircraft carrier: “this so-called aircraft carrier was really just a framework of a second-hand aircraft carrier that we refitted and will only be used for scientific research and training purposes. ItR[...]
China: Ai Weiwei tells his tale of two cities, both are Beijing
I am frustrated by the lack of attention by academe to the plight of Ai Weiwei. His courage is shown here by his decision to defy China’s corporate oligarchs by writing while under house arrest. While Ai’s courage is amazing, we should not just blame his fate on China. To a lesser de[...]
China: China’s Version of the “Perp Walk”
Ai Weiwei’s sister gives details of his confinement Gao spoke just before Ai’s wife, Lu Qing, and his attorneys appeared Thursday at the Beijing Taxation Bureau to challenge charges that Ai owes $1.8 million in back taxes and fines for a design company he is said to control, called Beiji[...]
China and the Freedom of Speach
The state-run Global Times newspaper on Friday published an article saying that Ai Weiwei’s release was not a result of Western pressure. “Western media believe foreign pressures have worked. It seems that their interpretation will do no harm to China’s external relations,” i[...]