Tag Archives: Ai Weiwei

• China artist Ai Weiwei says Britain restricted his visa 30 July 2015 This post has no comments yet

  Britain has denied Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei a six-month visa and restricted him to a three-week trip because he did not declare a "criminal conviction". ...

• Tibetan poet gives voice to dead protesters in new book 17 October 2013 | Marianne Barriaux This post has no comments yet

  A blogger, a taxi driver, a Communist Party official and a Buddhist monk. All of them Tibetan, and all of them driven to the desperate step of setting themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule. ...

• Street brawl erupts “between Chinese and Tibetans” in Beijing 13 May 2013 This post has no comments yet

  The dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has filmed a fight in China in which dozens of Han Chinese brawled with Tibetans in a street in Beijing. ...

• Web of Failure: How China’s Internet policies have doomed Chinese soft power 18 December 2012 | C. Custer This post has no comments yet

  In the long term, I suspect China's Internet Great Firewall will prove to be domestically unsustainable. But until the wall comes down, China’s attempts at soft power are little more than a pipe dream, ...

• China court rejects artist Ai Weiwei’s tax appeal 27 September 2012 | Robert Saiget This post has no comments yet

  A Chinese court on Thursday rejected Ai Weiwei's appeal against a hefty fine for alleged tax evasion which the acclaimed artist and government critic has called an attempt to silence his activism. ...