I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to ….

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression..

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was ….

I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in..

My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still supp….

In the end, I think, the state's rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness..

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life..

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society..

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a….

China hasn't only existed for one day. Now, the whole nation has become richer and it's become a problem. The problem is universal. The factor is big….

I think everybody deserves freedom. Freedom is such an abstract word, but it's all we need..

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condi….

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It's as simple as that..

We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm….

The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them..

Any politician who respects China's government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues - both….

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the sto….

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not….

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?.

I can still wake up the next day and feel that there's something that needs to be done, which always amuses me..

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm ….