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hello hello
out thank you very much for joining us
a we we appreciate a good morning there
I know um I let me i i kno u we only have about 10
minutes with you so let me just say start out by
ask you about something you said in your book I've wei-wei
is up this which we have here and it's that restrictions
are an essential condition in the fight for freedom of expression
it's also a source for any kind of creativity
what does that mean for though expression in a relatively
free society well I
I have been really is the a a true free society
I had I think I'll be all restricted
by give and a a problems
and the those problems often a
made us the whole way our and I
so I think I'll I as artists all riders
the our freedom s
I really I'll face-down
certain conduct initials are concerns which can make us a a
how far more I'll I'll
close look are all concerns
about to up our life Arora condition
we were talking a little bit before about
a being able to separate art from politics
II is it is it possible to do that
in a place like China or is everything or
the two inevitably a really together
i think im tryna the the condition as
you have first aid which which basically
a that a and have
all its policy based on against it
individual rights our human rights so I see so many writers
a ploy to even just a write-up poetry or just a sentence has been put in jail
in tryout I see so many young people
and daily because they put other
up paid 128 are just a repeat as being
a asking by police to go to all having a tea
tool to fight to try to a
but maintains its kind the so-called stability but a
in the truce a factor is fine too higher saddened under
also tools scare them away so how can this kinda society
have any kind real creativity
base out to drip act to love this kinda censorship
you've mentioned after your detention how difficult it is to recover
from that and how difficult it is not to be better
do you feel that bitterness has affected your art
%uh as a fax me so much I N
show seal a side job
condition your GED I'll
has stalled on humanity is starting to sink
what kinda were away levy and
you knows many says at a treatise Rossi
destroy CO believed us haldol saw
this situation designed for they trying to create a
I'll some kinda rheology to make you believe
that's no more that can happen at any time
and up at Cap happens as they well
so that that's the message is sent out to the public
and also to you I me if you have any sense
you would believe that is the true so
how how you'll in a
every day at I mean Constance a constant struggle you can't walk on street as
ever some looks normal kind I stood by looking at so fast and is so amazin
you know people not necessarily happy if you see their face
but what's behind it
as this very scary picture
whoever you reese's question about
those you know those values a
summit just mention that universal values
are can be concede us up
subversion of state could be put in jail can
candies disappear %uh and since
they start to questions I'll says and could be forgotten by the Society
that's most dangerous as those people all fighting for freedom
awful good a forgotten by the free world also called a free world
when and well
you mentioned about a it people in China
do you think that the younger generation in China
understands what went on during the cultural Cultural Revolution
and do you think they would be as acquiescent
go along with it as much as happened earlier
I think a a for this kind the states that this
and %uh a and a starter insists state
the most powerful a skill to have faced a copy of the mammary
to you know that's the if made of the mammary be lost a big part of our true
so far
you know of being so but
most young people has had not talk about
or have no information about what happened a in the past
at during the Cultural Revolution or even
on after other 18 I Eunos
pipe to a fresh at that time this Calif picture so people
young people their universities they don't know
what happened the 18 I which this
great danger because all those people what's being
educated this so universities they don't know
very basic but a a fax
about what happened to their parents and their parents ap
even scared to tell people what happened and
so want day one China staff to asking
soem so much all have fired his
jeff had to ask them to tell the truth that's ridiculous because they'd never
castro's to their children
what happened the in the the only land let me ask you
are you in a situation now where you're able at least to continue doing your own
art
I think %uh
that they have to still come back to the question to adopt a nation of what is
art
I'm not that a and able to do my
art if I can not put my name we met on domestic internet
if I can not have a shows in China
yes I'm ok arm still able to do my art
I'll wasa %uh sir
sir technology this is kinda Skype or or or
on tater ordered up to show
enough up all sides of type but I'll
in China if I want tom to have a voice
space the people was five million ways to me all want to hear my boys
my voices can never be her alright well your voice is being heard tonight
and I just want to thank you very much on behalf of her whole audience for
at taking the time to be with us this evening thank you
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