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...I have gone through a difficult time, through a life or death situation really. I have been injured and detained, my studio was destroyed and they fabricated a sky-high tax bill for me. So I am not representing myself but a certain cause. This is about justice. It is about people who have no voice or are too shy to use it. I have become a symbolic figure for this anti-authoritarian attitude -- not just in China, but in any country that is dominated by such a political or economic power, also in the so-called free world...

Ai Weiwei in conversation with SPIEGEL, May 2013.
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Here at the interpretOr, we view Ai Weiwei as a courageous and decent person who fell foul of the CCP when he highlighted the tragedy of thousands of Chinese school kids dying in recent earthquakes - crushed by collapsing school buildings...