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Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: ltlee1ltlee1 Date: Aug 11, 2008 17:52
On Aug 11, 5:48Â pm, PaPaPeng yahoo.com> wrote:> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:01:18 -0700 (PDT), bmo...@ nyx.net wrote:
> >>I'm glad to see that this man, who is pretty critical of the Chinese
>>government, can criticize like that without being arrested. He lives
>>in Beijing. Of course, it may help that he is the son of a famous
>>poet.
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> At his level he is too famous to be touched without the Government
> coming across as petty. Â Leaving Ai Weiwei alone has the opposite
> effect of making the authorities smell of roses for being totally
> tolerant of high profile dissent. So far Ai does not appear to have
> any popular following on artistic style nor in "protest." Â Ergo he is
> a harmless kook albeit an artistically talented one. Â We will know
> what he really is from his future commissions and sale of his works
> inside China.
Ai Weiwei did not have anything specifc except the leadership did not
instill feelings into the show. Because the lack of feeling, they
would not earn any reapect or friendship.
But Ai is not the only one who cirticized the show. People's Daily's
QGLT, a chinese language forum, has more criticism.
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