The future of poetry is inseparable from the future of democratic politics. A constitution matters even more to poets than to others, because only when the right to expression is guaranteed can one give voice to the hopes of people at large. So 80 years later, your father's faith in poetry as freedom's ambassador has yet to find any kind of vindication in china. And you state that refusing to forget can become an act of resistance.
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.