“I try to encourage people to look at our past in a critical way because as our education, we have a great, great history. But in reality we are poorest in ethics and philosophy, so I try to raise people’s consciousness on how we deal with our past.”
2010-, Ai Weiwei, interview by Christiane Amanpour, 2010
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