You write about how every time you were ostracized and rejected in little siberia, your perspective n society shifted accordingly. You go on to state that the estrangement and hostility that you encountered instilled in you a clear awareness of who you were. And i become artist because i think i'm not capable of doing something else,. So it was sort of the fallback position, is sure.
Ai Weiwei joins to discuss his new memoir “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,” depicting a century-long epic tale of China told through a story of his family.