You write about how at the time, only pentisysyllabic or heptosyllabic rhyming verse in classical chinese was considered good poetry. How did your father first distribute his work? And unto the early time, he was in prison, sentenced for six years. But that time, prison is pretty loose than to day. They still can have a lawyer, or still friend can visit him, so he can pass his writing to his friend. His friend is also come back from paris, and there they just bishe his poetry outside the jail. And he's his pen name, chin. Later we all followed his pen name.
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.