powder on to it. eventually staff managed to stop him and both protesters were moved by security. the group just stop oil claim responsibility. and you're up to date due, stay tuned up. next is our documentary series, which takes a look at the beijing spring and the democracy wall movement in china. i'm aaron chilton. berlin, thanks for joining us. when you work isn't architechnical elaine or not at all? women in architecture, why are they so invisible to the larger public? we decided to ask them, what is the poetry the secret of the house? shattering the glass ceiling? women in architecture starts april 20th on d. w. ah.

ah. linkage issues when the cultural revolution in china came to an end from the political tension began to subside under the artists and activists had already begun to emerge looking for a new concept of art. art that was real human gen should kill asian feeling every one felt that change was india and every one wanted to contribute. lead switching, dubia won. he

wasn't, while we were all very young, like we saw a small window opening in china, which at that point was so closed ah .

under chairman miles leadership, we will smash old ways of thinking, cultural concept, habits and customs, and overcome all obstacles and our past year. say the cultural revolution began on august 18th, 1966. when mal met with the red guards on tenements square in beijing, 2 wall that marked the start of fundamental change. smell was suddenly no longer a mere mortal. i mean, of course he was, but that's when people made him a god. here be him. and so tween ocean realm of culture and art and propaganda came under the direct control of mao's wife, whose name was john ching she and the people who worked with her,

they narrowed down what they felt was a 100 percent reliable, revolutionary art. the poster arden and graphic art in the novels and short stories were similarly restricted for the further you, none of our artistic works towed. the party line or our art was very free. and of course we were completely self taught that they it says yes. on the one day when mary duck dusk time i went to see him. oh, when the see my friend the benefit, he wasn't the home. i'm a, his father was a live down in the crime, the temporary bed. and i realized that under the bookshelf, that book as i survived, didn't take him by writer garza did in the burn. cover of his a dust was

a complete art history. i'm the that the force, the prime. i saw the impressionist on the 1st time i realized the heart can be like that. ah hm. ah . which in this was originally a toy that was broken and you tell the child threw it away to where all of your villa teacher,

i brought the paper from china. the kid threw his broken toy on the floor and i picked it up off and turned it into art. authoritative of you know, told her chung, she was a well jim now used her and the gang of 4 to kill people. chunky chunks and didn't hold a weapon. she herself was a weapon. johnson bass mouse weapon was about to tell her a. 2

easy rest of the gang of 4 marked a turning point in china. mm mm. shortly after the end of the cultural revolution, when it now had died, dung shall ping emerged as the leader of the old guard sort of step by step. and dung shall ping was trying to put china back together again. and one of dunn's main lieutenants said, among those who had been killed the imprisoned, fired, and their relatives, the total number of people who had been hurt by the culture revolution was a 100000000.

ah patio it was an to me that she was. yeah, i saw this man in the middle of beijing. covet in mouth badges, although begin like he had come all the way to beijing, but he's hoping to solve his problems to petition leave michelle pay though. do he made a profound impression on me? so i took this photograph in cool this is betty and compassion in the image. you but also great hope. that's how human beings are the hill. that's how we chinese have survived for thousands of years in georgia down

corner. ah, to the challenger. she. this is where democracy activists put up their daisy brow and big character posters that they want. i'm going ahead j. u and they wanted compensation for the suffering caused by the cultural revolution. i see it, i'm sure it's either guides you oh, oh, i people on the way home from work they stopped there to read.

oh, it was not very noisy. people quietly read text to pronounce the many chinese had never seen anything like that before. were people would criticize to cover men. so they stood there, open mouse. ah, it had not been long ago that people were notches put into prison me an executed tor, criticizing mo, at the communist park in very tap and all in public. g, p. u for joshua clichy, the stars art group is closely associated with democracy wall, as well as the activists to express their views on democracy and freedom there. there was also jin tian to de la a non official literary magazine. well, the windshield, how to shoot ginger,

you'll be on point ashlyn. shitty too. it's honey. we really wanted to contribute to democracy was we'll tall, intuitive. so we spontaneously decided to publish a magazine featuring new poems and novels, photography, and pain to hail he, she, she know, she ha, ha, ha, ha, a she, she'll one that we wanted to find out what freedom of the press really means your salvage. so we came up with the idea of publishing a magazine button as leo i suggested calling it today, the hotel. i found that we should try to represent the present to feel that the moment amelia daniel kenton, sir oregon washing along the way and i were the founders of the artist group, the stars with an uneasy her. we wanted to create

a space where everything revolved around art. we called ourselves the stars because now was the sun origin mother don't really the pile. and the i certainly one of those. oh the over the stars. oh for with her fill the okay, that's good idea. sounds credit modest. it was thought of the thought only shining during the bug i'm when the pain comes of it is a good. they started, i got the idea. i have a are the show and then include me. and then i say i have a friend. i know some one daughter would carry. call the one copier m o to come when the doctor will my room at that time as annie 8 square meters. oh, i hung my aunt on the wall, kept it in the closet. and under my ban on the 20th ah,

the luck of you listen bill to being to still sure. just one k pings work was very political. is sculpture. silence is a head with the mouth plug new to you that the against the name. so it's a sculpture that conveys a sense of constraint on she's huh. i hang you. it's you way to her trunk for one of my 1st paintings to picks, a member of the red guard said that a young girl holding a leather belt in her hand. any longer p that it looks like she is just hit someone with it and she is looking at a distorted image of herself in a cracked mirror, cannot easily busy unless she seems lost. how much and confused home yachts here to hong roy was confident. the exhibition would be a sensation,

a condemned handle. ah, we will go far. it's falling away and i went to the authorities every day to apply for an exhibition space. finally, you, the artist association told us to give up for that there was no way we would get a permit lea, a book on a $1000000.00 bill for me to change. so we decided to exhibit outside the national art museum. the national guard or this is the fins all of the is not a wall is all of the the my tell my boyfriend's perfect of hon. the pictures i took it and i'm just trying to thought to prepare the show. ah, near very johnny pavilion. we couldn't have the invitations officially printed,

so we did it ourselves in secret to india in that he gets hit by borrowed a printing machine from my work place to that. should it $802.00 wife type the tax submission will laugh at that either. that's how we organize the exhibition to until they ordered the framing, the hanging of the everything propelled until the the evening. the night of had you think that i felt now that credit getting credit credit expire. exciting. i think that makes a lot on the whole bathing with the something new and everybody back to home clever s o n a great the next morning. something like a salmon,

the heat o'clock, or something they all got there. he was all tried the cold by the go, whatever a ticket from the old of different that isn't under that miss thought hun hung a show. ah woman, i should send me easily. the 10 soldier we 23 explorers of ours are presenting our modest findings. the world offers boundless possibilities to those who wish to explore it. we see the world with our eyes and engaging with our brushes and carving knives. the old o dedicate our works to the earthman and to the people and clunky d for wanted me. 1 to it, and also people were 1st shocked and then surprised garland india

the lease. of course some people were baffled. they didn't understand till my ah to the just wanted to know what it all meant. is this abstract they asked for? i just replied, it's not abstract. it's just a little deformed and modified inch. ah, to really that's what he tell me. one work was called cry of the people are in the shall fall at the bottom of the picture. there were some small beijing style houses . small bungalows just on this at the top are outstretched hands. t o little angry hands now begging hands helpless hands, couldn't radish all kinds of hands accusing hands. expressing the voices of

different people were genuine. you know? no. so ah lorina, thou should one painting by hong re title re bath made a great impression on me with the painting to next the ruins of the old summer palace, eager. fishy? ah! sure, yummy. that time many young artists went to the old summer palace to paint long, really focused on the ruins in the old domes, stones and columns at the palace. your tools that he to take to them as human beings, otwell, you got the feeling they were supporting and lifting one another arm from god. it's an image that shows an awakening. china, so ship while it's cutting law. the paper on has suddenly become the i very biggest

thing or if it's outside the museum and inside there was an official exhibition shit. and some people who've been to the national museum said who your exhibition is much better than the one i sign on. he's gonna kill for the late. how of cause of the visit? her book, the people arrive a lot of of their love, a wonderful favor from all the different decorations old officers took the soldier for even the workers in pairs of the student. val youngsters the old kind of people ah

ah ah ah ah, and the reaction was very heartfelt. we'd never seen anything like it turned on me, but the exhibit didn't last long. the police broke it up, dora, or by the police yelled no exhibitions here during july. you didn't say there was a deathly silence. m

don't take it all down. they shouted. they were no one moved to the police officer, turned around and bellow, did the crowd take everything down, which i said, i exhibitions are not allowed here. do you hear ya? long re walked forward and politely asked, why does the activation band? we would like to know what they did already. the police officer replied, if i say no exhibitions are allowed on, no exhibitions are allowed at the police claimed we would disturbing the social order under this pretext the exhibition was ban. ah,

i doubt that you that we saw it as a violation of the chinese constitution whom you citizens have the right to express themselves. he ended it which ali pamela, they joined forces. they worked with the democracy while artists and political activists to demand freedom of art with zeal. i mean, we have no choice any more. we have to demonstrate that. yeah, this is not actually what we want you right? but we will not allow the abuse and suppression of art to continue. this is the father schumann lee was the editor of practically the most important of the democracy. charles, at that time, a proof for him. she would leave us a little bit older than the other son. he was quite respected by everybody and

a democracy movement. but he and oh, so other activists off the very much aware that they could be arrested at any moment. whoa, whoa, whoa. hi me. we weren't sure if the communist party would fire shots or make arrests that day. what i just thought, yeah, i have to do this now after you, but i didn't think about the risks of being arrested or killed. mancha said at the time, it's not about winning the battle. god, even if the war is doomed to fail, we have to join the fight. you're gonna die back. well, yeah, in our country for many historical reasons, there are no laws prohibiting what we have done. what we want political democracy, we want artistic freedom player, banning the exhibition of the styles is a violation of the constitution claim,

or they don't. when i left the house i left all my valuables. i said good bye to my parents for we were all prepared for the possibility. we wouldn't return home. we were prepared to be arrested. if it's all i knew. knew it harvey does it. you'll empty, who we foreigners were worried about our chinese friends sitting saw the polar guests you oh, they had provoked the party. the speeches were recorded with a tape recorder that had given to lou lane that he didn't have to lean. ah ah, shoot not a shoot g to go back down, shooting over to chow, ning recorded everything with a film camera wonderful maria ginger doing so he

risked his life journey georgia deva to continental drive. i shall to helena johnny. the police immediately became aware of him and arrested him today. oh, i don't know a lot. he was forced to take the film roll out of the camera, video to water and hold it up to the light to destroy the film, baylor. oh holla was when she on you then the police let him go. sugars took football littlefield heard, i asked him if the film was damaged and he said, i only pulled out the part where no shots had been taken yet. come by, this is joe out a lot. he tricked the police. the apollo. ah we can barely hear. i'm not. we're mad for our meeting. we have prepared leaflets to distribute you. i'm one of the ha. i hope that everyone will receive one. they had to hear that there are enough copies for all of you. read on that. i had a long term. sh, we need

a slow gosh. you demand political democracy demand, artistic freedom than you thought when we got to label cow, we were stopped by a group of police officers. there's a whole place fell quiet. the junior people climb trees to see to lay the short virgin door. even. it was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop nor angie m meet. then a police officer completely overwhelmed. told us we could march towards the beijing municipal building by north shin wall street and che, on send men. but you show it gingerly the crowd was silent.

jigsaw footsteps were in time with our hot beat. that went then we got to the beijing municipal building. ah and then latesha gave a speech of others it was sunday was i his walking stick? a pale, ever very excited pair. like i said, there's put a hat on the on the 7th game. evelyn. oh oh oh oh oh. oh citizens, what bill? countrymen, i want you to know me. you are human beings. we are all human beings. old. we have

the right to speak why that's why they give us a rock. we have used our brushes and carving knives, to honor our country and depict the suffering it has experienced those who squander the public's money and abuse. the people go unpunished because of their political power. how are we really all equal before the law to laugh at all the money he had since you were such a passionate young man, though. yeah. you know, you knew so much about the law. you even research renting? they don't tell her this is where leo, ma'am sham. took a photo of you from behind. i that oh, tell him i'm be about an hour after the speeches the representatives came out of the government building. come and they were aware of on spot refuse to discuss

anything. mm. the demonstration had ended peacefully that yes. shoot. lee declared the event over that weight. ah, was like 5. why shy? corey? after his see me, he said a word recently. you should join us in a way or can i have, or i actually that's already their 1st stroke by the faith. i park. the 2nd place so i had my works in their many landscape tried something like cell

or van gong, the impression artist, the can, the sensitivity, half of them at that time i was working for i shall, smells, place to the foreign press. had a tremendous influence, that there was almost a sort of dialogue triangular dialogue between the foreign press and the chinese people and them helping. it was very important for them helping to show that his china was different from the china before. and maybe we can say that at that time he did want to open up china. he did also maybe want some kind of democracy. was she? and i last article was titled, do we want democracy or new dictatorship? almost everyone wanted democracy for china, but not don. shall ping, in my opinion,

he wanted a dictatorship. i. this is one special edition of ton, swore for explorations waiting chung's magazine. it carries the famous article, democracy, or new dictatorship, a long article with many things that we don't remember. but one sentence will remember where he says that dan shopping turns out to be the same kind of dictator, s mo and 3 days later he was arrested alexander. hi, i shouted to go to democracy wall and tell people that waging chung has been arrested. will you be paula? at that time i was it insisted to be i saw a lighting man and the electrician to you then to the lighting for the child. yes.

the next day i'm just walking in the bridging. caught and had nearly the midnight by my by my mother, someone knocking my door and the old hand. and then there's a fall of the came honda, they say that there's a pro series and then to took up a little cassette recorder. i took it and as the way i just recorded was actually she, i waited in a small restaurant for lou linkedin who was outside the court waiting for the cassette recorder. i lorinda so that talk as soon as to lay gave it to him to call . he went in to the small restaurant and gave me the table the birds of that jago in summer one, after transcribing everything for we started printing. so woman,

jodi, the unit that we printed over 2000 pages at my home being trim border, then we made big posters out of them and hung them on democracy wall. kendra ah, we're using session, we published the entire transcript of waging chung's trial here. a good one. and that showed the general public how the trial had been manipulated by the communist party and daughter savage home. but the love ye shall done, shall ping wanted to sentence me to death, but because of the fierce political opposition he couldn't. he hated me all the more for that he could only give me a set on so 15 years i was shaken a little and the guards told not to come down. they thought i was scared,

but in reality, i was happy to have survived. i did not die. oh, shanda you what? why ella? oh miss lad of day. oh, she don't. there was a young embassy attache named emanuel bella, flush biting ching and chinese. we met frequently through the stars, artists, cruel. we fell in love at 1st sight, generalising a therapy knob very quickly. after a month or 2, i confessed my love to her and immediately told her that i would like to marry her . oh sir, do you let it was a marriage between chinese and foreigners? was forbidden at that time, especially embassy staff. ah . like

dull shopping at 1st allowed democracy wall to happen. but in march of 1979 dung shall ping said that's enough of that. blue and shocking chinese young shall ping decided to tear down the wall. how the chick he maintained that the area needed to be renovated, so the wall had to be destroyed and replaced with a billboard on can call her move toward the tilt g. just chinese politics is sometimes flexible. and sometimes strict sonia, it kinda kinda depends on the circumstances edition down the dante.

ah thought deejaying huge a hole. i was in solitary confinement for over 10 years. bait, kuala, ah, she jean entered you 5 of them. and as sam jones, this marie education where you're supposed to think tardy, taquila only entered you alone, and a 3 square meter room that younger us, some me the shelf. that was the hardest part. 3 dash dash was james 3. jim lamphere, junior and jonah to mail and then after the 2nd art exhibition of the artist group, the stars and further exhibitions were mand so you know what causes i do. there was no more room to develop in china. and each of us wanted to find

a way to get out. there was no big goodbye. i just left 1st to switzerland. eventually france. it should be a visa, or do i say what today to be allowed back into china? people like me have to fill out an application, will send it in and agree not to say or do anything that could harm the communist party to hear funding. i can't sign something like that worship, unless you do that when i left mainland china in 1985 with my parents were still alive. angela was a long time ago now, and my parents have since passed away fully. i never returned to china with lemuel to actually to will building another when i'm with managing with i'm always reminded of our time and

the artist group, the styles. motor back when we took all kinds of raising suit to be able to exhibit with all a sudden is a lot easier the police police. i promised to leech wine than i would move heaven and hell to get her out of jail. if she was ever arrested in the day book and saw the people sailed, all french delegations had to challenge the chinese government about the lease wrong. a fair during state visits your boss on. yeah. on january 26th. 1983. i left china and travel to

a foreign country for my wedding. hula when shit. i can't. oh, england, 985. so we do so again, it is finally released to america. and then i came to lisa to england though i met him in the waterloo station. and after so many years i wish i had. how did he say the yo saved my life? that ye i'm equal her in j. what's the

relationship between art and human rights? it seems like they're separate yet. they're very closely linked in glenn ah, eagle and she bananas will that be you? in 1978, my friends and i initiated a democratic movement in beijing, democracy wall. she is a political act and also gave rise to an artistic movement at producing a number of famous poets and writers. shirts, which any many of whom, right under pseudonyms, hook, and law will be issued me on the shelf regard. ah, felicia, the artist group, the stars is still significant. shonasha, it's still relevant in china to day. cookie, joshua and

homicides was like hundreds of different flowers blooming at the same time it ah, you saw that, you know, there was a shima. what is changed and everything is changed to her? but you could also say that we're right where we started farther away. my european was like the monkey king who can change into 72 shapes, but in the end, returns to what he is a monkey beholder. i ga gov. hogan you each year and every one in the world wants freedom to chima the freedom to express themselves to build out the the gun. mm. agenda bar protecting human rights is something we all need to do. sawyer in duncan who's yup .

a freedom of speech to assemble, to unite hours, a censure las air and water. mm mm. mm mm ah, she june. oh, i see she's a movie channel. oh

ah, a pulse ah, the beginning of a story that moves us and aches us along for the ride. it's only about the perspective culture information this is dw and d w made for mines. not one more reads the after half on the 6th grade.

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