Ai Qing

Letter Reveals Vanished Artist’s Deepest Beliefs

Ai Weiwei's sister has released a letter Ai wrote in 1978, which provides some insight into his early experiences that had a deep impact on his view of the world. She also states that she believes he will be treated very harshly...

Is Ai Weiwei a Patriot? An Answer from New Yorker Archives

On his blog, New Yorker correspondent Evan Osnos writes about a visit poet Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei's father, paid to the New Yorker offices in 1981: In 1981, Ai Qing was seventy years old, and had been politically rehabilitated for...

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