While imprisoned, you thought a lot about your father, i ching. One year ae you were born, he was imprisoned after chairman mow unleashed a political initiative designed to purge artists from china who had criticized the government. Many of my close friends, they are still serving time in jail. Some are sentenced as lifetime, a sentence which they crav they never had crime. It's a very unique experience. They are just stare at you, and without even talking, just look at you. So still, every day i waiting for them to make some kind of decisions.
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.