Filmmakers Cut Ai Weiwei Over Political Fears
Just following news that a film by Zhang Yimou about the Cultural Revolution was excluded from the...
Feb 19, 2019
Just following news that a film by Zhang Yimou about the Cultural Revolution was excluded from the...
Jul 13, 2018
This week brought both the first anniversary of the death of Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, and...
May 1, 2013
Last year, a number of works by the artist Zhao Zhao were confiscated by Chinese customs officials on their way to an exhibition in New York. On Friday, a new exhibition of his work opened in Berlin, with the artist in...
Sep 1, 2012
At Spiegel Online, Ulrike Knöfel profiles provocative Beijing artist Zhao Zhao and two of the gallery owners who have backed him. A former assistant to Ai Weiwei, Zhao appears in the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry in a...
Jun 5, 2012
Self-styled porn star Luka Rocco Magnotta has been arrested in a Berlin internet café, where he was identified while watching pornography and reading news stories about the global effort to track him down. His capture came as a...
Aug 16, 2011
In the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson interviews author Liao Yiwu, who recently moved to Berlin in order to be able to publish his works: Ian Johnson: The Chinese newspaper Global Times said Liao Yiwu is not in exile. It...