Ai Weiwei on Beijing's Nightmare City - The Daily Beast

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/ai-weiwei-on-beijing-s-nightmare-city.html

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Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of desperation. I see people on public buses, and I see their eyes, and I see they hold no hope. They can’t even imagine that they’ll be able to buy a house. They come from very poor villages where they’ve never seen electricity or toilet paper.

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Uploaded by Amnesty International (Emerson) on 30 August 2011

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Chinese artist Ai Weiwei defies his ban on using the internet and talking to journalists to give his view of Beijing.

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