Ai Weiwei's blog: writings, interviews, and digital rants, 2006-2009

Machine generated contents note: 2006 Texts

Problems Facing Foreign Architects Working within a Chinese Architectural Practice

Architecture and Space

Photography

With Regard to Architecture

Chinese Contemporary Art in Dilemma and Transition

On Photography

Who Are You?

The Longest Road

Their City

N Town

S Village in Beijing

Wrong Place, Right Time

Distracting Thoughts Overhead

A Straightforward Angle: Liu Xiaodong

Quietly Settling Dust

Fragments

A World without Honor

Yesterday I Cut My Hair

Here and Now

Ideal Cities and Architecture Do Not Exist

As Soon as You're Not Careful... an Encounter with Idiocy on a Sunny Day

A Path to an Unknown Place

A Curse for Zuzhou

Ordinary Architecture

Ar Chang's Persistence

The Computer Worth "Several Hundred Million" and One Worthless Brain

A Road with No End

Ignorance and Hypocrisy Always Win

Why I Am a Hypocrite

The People, the Moon, Zidane, and More

Some Thoughts on Future Cities

Letting Our Mistakes Keep Us Down

Aftershocks

Spiritual Orientation and the Possibilities of Existence

Super Lights: Yan Lei and His Work

Flat-Bottomed Cloth Shoes

Familiar Curse Words

Despicable Things

Bile from Living Bears

Different Worlds, Different Dreams

Hypnosis and Fragmented Reality: Li Songsong

Documenting the Unfamiliar Self and the Non-self: Rongrong & inri

Widespread Beliefs

The Ethical Foundation of Justice

2007 Texts

Life, Crime, and Death

Standards and Practical Jokes

Rowing on the Bund: Wang Xingwei

Eternally Lost Confidence

Dog Massacre in Wan Chuan

A "Fairytale" Becomes an Artwork

National Day

Andy Warhol

Designatum

Some Abnormal Numbers

2008 Texts

Hallucinations and "Inhaling Poisons"

We Have Nothing

Flickering Screens

A Word of Thanks

Light as a Feather

The Space between Reality and Ideals: Zhao Zhao

Divination and Democracy

Grief

Silent Holiday

Sacrifice

Karmic Retribution for Karma

The Way of Teacher Fan and Ethics in the Ministry of Education

Forget About It

Paper Tigers and Paper Hunters

Smashing and Burning

the Eccentric and Unsociable Type / Yang Jia

On the Bird's Nest

Endless Surprise

Pipe Dreams

Doing Push-ups

Public Trial

The Trial

Olympic Virus

Does the Nation Have a List?

Closing the Opening Ceremony

The Olympic Committee

Obama

That Liu Yaling

Why Violence?

Kill, but Not in the Name of Justice

Bullshit Is Free

Stimulating Domestic Introspection

2009 Texts

Shanzhai Ideals

Inappropriate Accusations, Excessive Punishments

Bullshit Tax

Two Jokes

Confidence, Face, a Shoe

Central Television Is Flaming

Heartless

Central Television Inspired China

What Is Central Television, Anyway?

My Regards to Your Mother

Citizen Investigation

Letter from a Beichuan Mother

Guests from All Corners of the Earth

Day of True National Revitalization

These Days I Can't Believe Anything You Say

Paranoid Citizen

5.12 Memorial Day

How Could We Have Degenerated to This?

Domestic Security "Rice Cookers"

Don't Harbor Illusions about Me

I'm Ready

Let Us Forget

If You Aren't Anti-China, Are You Still Human?

Boycott the Internet on July 1, Don't Make Excuses, Don't Calculate Losses or Gains

140 Characters

I Really Can't Believe It.