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Editor’s pick 2008: Ai Weiwei

23 Dec 2008

Ai Weiwei
China’s greatest artist, Ai Weiwei, caused controversy in the summer when he announced he would stay away from the Olympic Games, despite being the creative mind behind Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Stadium.

In an exclusive interview for Index on Censorship’s ‘Made in China issue’, he told Simon Kirby about challenging state censorship and the status quo.

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