Research Catalog

Title

Ai Weiwei's blog : writings, interviews, and digital rants, 2006-2009 / Ai Weiwei ; edited and translated by Lee Ambrozy.

Author

Ai, Weiwei

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Ambrozy, Lee, 1978-

Description

xxviii, 307 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

For three years Weiwei, the most celebrated artist in China & an outspoken social critic, compiled a blog in which he ranged widely over issues of the day as well as art matters. This translation offers a complete documentation of his blog, which was closed down by the government of China on 1st June 2009.

Series Statement

The MIT Press writing art series

Subject

• Ai, Weiwei > Blogs
• Dissident
• Dissenters, Artistic > China > Blogs

Genre/Form

• v – Writings.
• v – Interviews.
• blogs.
• Blogs
• Blogues.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: 2006 Texts -- Problems Facing Foreign Architects Working within a Chinese Architectural Practice -- Architecture and Space -- Photography -- With Regard to Architecture -- Chinese Contemporary Art in Dilemma and Transition -- On Photography -- Who Are You? -- The Longest Road -- Their City -- N Town -- S Village in Beijing -- Wrong Place, Right Time -- Distracting Thoughts Overhead -- A Straightforward Angle: Liu Xiaodong -- Quietly Settling Dust -- Fragments -- A World without Honor -- Yesterday I Cut My Hair -- Here and Now -- Ideal Cities and Architecture Do Not Exist -- As Soon as You're Not Careful... an Encounter with Idiocy on a Sunny Day -- A Path to an Unknown Place -- A Curse for Zuzhou -- Ordinary Architecture -- Ar Chang's Persistence -- The Computer Worth "Several Hundred Million" and One Worthless Brain -- A Road with No End -- Ignorance and Hypocrisy Always Win -- Why I Am a Hypocrite -- The People, the Moon, Zidane, and More.
• Some Thoughts on Future Cities -- Letting Our Mistakes Keep Us Down -- Aftershocks -- Spiritual Orientation and the Possibilities of Existence -- Super Lights: Yan Lei and His Work -- Flat-Bottomed Cloth Shoes -- Familiar Curse Words -- Despicable Things -- Bile from Living Bears -- Different Worlds, Different Dreams -- Hypnosis and Fragmented Reality: Li Songsong -- Documenting the Unfamiliar Self and the Non-self: Rongrong & inri -- Widespread Beliefs -- The Ethical Foundation of Justice -- 2007 Texts -- Life, Crime, and Death -- Standards and Practical Jokes -- Rowing on the Bund: Wang Xingwei -- Eternally Lost Confidence -- Dog Massacre in Wan Chuan -- A "Fairytale" Becomes an Artwork -- National Day -- Andy Warhol -- Designatum -- Some Abnormal Numbers -- 2008 Texts -- Hallucinations and "Inhaling Poisons" -- We Have Nothing -- Flickering Screens -- A Word of Thanks -- Light as a Feather -- The Space between Reality and Ideals: Zhao Zhao -- Divination and Democracy -- Grief.
• Silent Holiday -- Sacrifice -- Karmic Retribution for Karma -- The Way of Teacher Fan and Ethics in the Ministry of Education -- Forget About It -- Paper Tigers and Paper Hunters -- Smashing and Burning -- the Eccentric and Unsociable Type / Yang Jia -- On the Bird's Nest -- Endless Surprise -- Pipe Dreams -- Doing Push-ups -- Public Trial -- The Trial -- Olympic Virus -- Does the Nation Have a List? -- Closing the Opening Ceremony -- The Olympic Committee -- Obama -- That Liu Yaling -- Why Violence? -- Kill, but Not in the Name of Justice -- Bullshit Is Free -- Stimulating Domestic Introspection -- 2009 Texts -- Shanzhai Ideals -- Inappropriate Accusations, Excessive Punishments -- Bullshit Tax -- Two Jokes -- Confidence, Face, a Shoe -- Central Television Is Flaming -- Heartless -- Central Television Inspired China -- What Is Central Television, Anyway? -- My Regards to Your Mother -- Citizen Investigation -- Letter from a Beichuan Mother -- Guests from All Corners of the Earth
• Day of True National Revitalization -- These Days I Can't Believe Anything You Say -- Paranoid Citizen -- 5.12 Memorial Day -- How Could We Have Degenerated to This? -- Domestic Security "Rice Cookers" -- Don't Harbor Illusions about Me -- I'm Ready -- Let Us Forget -- If You Aren't Anti-China, Are You Still Human? -- Boycott the Internet on July 1, Don't Make Excuses, Don't Calculate Losses or Gains -- 140 Characters -- I Really Can't Believe It.

ISBN

• 9780262015219 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262015218 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010024293

OCLC

642352029

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library