The controversial Chinese artist joined us to reply your questions in a live webchat – catch up with his answers here,from Chinas censorship to why he loves Twitter, via how he became friends with Allen Ginsberg in New York 1.17pm BSTThanks to Ai Weiwei for his time and his brilliant answers, or to everyone who submitted questions. Until next time! 12.56pm BSTID9191105 asks:I teach in a High School in Nanjing China. Not one of my 16-17 year ancient students know who you are. How effect you feel approximately that?I deem I feel sorry that my voice still hasn't got through,and I will continue to make the effort, especially for young people in schools, or so that people can hear from me. That's obviously a result of Chinese censorship. Censorship works: they have never heard of me,or heard of the Tiananmen massacre in 1989. They don't know that my father and hundreds of other intellectuals were punished with tough labour in 1957. And in the cultural revolution later, the chairman of China was disappeared and suffered death. They changed his name, and nobody to this day knows what happened to him. There's no excuse for ignorance,and that's the shame of the society. Thank youContinue reading...
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