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“When you’re working in China, there’s a gray area that you have to navigate well.” — Zhao Liang, documentary filmmaker in China

Zhao Liang and Ai Weiwei. Two remarkable and brave artists. One is a rebel-turned-collaborator with the Chinese government. The other remains defiant. As a result, Ai is monitored daily by bureaucratic thugs and banned from leaving the country.

An interesting study in contrasts. What’s more effective? To be a dissident from the insider or from the outside?

(This story appeared in the New York Times last August. I’m sorry it took this long for me to see it!)

2nd February 2012

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