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blue ah. language 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 had gen, should kill asian feelings. every one felt that change was india,

and every one wanted to contribute lead switching, dubia won what? and we were all very young. like we saw a small window opening in china, which at that point was so closed. ah, from

under chairman mills leadership, we will smash old ways of thinking, cultural concept, habits and customs, and overcome all obstacles on our past year. say the cultural revolution began on august 18th, 1966. when mal met with the red guards on tenements square in beijing to wall, that mark 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, a here beat him. and so tween ocean realm of culture in

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 narrow 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. well, our art was very free and of course we were completely self taught. you know, they, it's this yell on the one day when mary talk dusk time i went to see him. oh, oh, when the see my friend the canada. he wasn't the home. i'm a, his father was a low down in

a crowded temporary bed and i realized the under the bookshelf. that book as a survivor didn't take him by writer garza did the burn. cover of the dust was a complete art history. i know that the 1st time i saw the impressionist on the 1st time i realized that the heart can be like that. ah hm. ah

. which in this was originally a toilet, was broken and you tell the child, throw 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 ohio. no. gender chung, she was a well 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 mows weapon wasn't going to tell her a,

you rest of the gang of 4 marked a turning point in china. ha, ha. mm mm. shortly after the end of the cultural revolution, when it now had died, dumb shall ping emerged as the leader of the old guard, sort of step by step. and dung shall pain 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, batches probably don't like he had come all the way to beijing. he's hoping to solve his problems. to petition leave michelle pe 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 heel. that's how we chinese have survived for thousands of years and daughter down corner, ah, to the challenger. she, this is where democracy activists put up their dicey brow and big character posters that they want on it. yeah, yeah. they wanted compensation for the suffering caused by the cultural revolution . i see it. hm. dorothy, the guys you oh oh, i

on the way home from work they stopped there to read. oh, it was not very noisy, and people quietly read text took notes. they talked a little bit among them, but oh no big discussions. many chinese had never seen anything like that before. were people with criticized government? 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 arkwin, very tap and all in public gypsy should. josh, if we should leave the stars, our group is closely associated with democracy wall as well. as the activists to

express their views on democracy and freedom their there was also jim tian today when a non official literary magazine law the windshield coul to share jeannie you'll be on point ashlyn. shitty too. it's honey. we really wanted to contribute to democracy wall who told the truth. so we spontaneously decided to publish a magazine featuring new poems and novels, photography, and pain detail. he, she, she know, she ha, ha ha i, she, she'll one that we wanted to find out what freedom of the press really means you're self occupied. 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 long ruin and i were the founders of the artist group, the stars didn't initially go, 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 thought okay, that's good idea. sounds credit modest. it was thought the thought only shining very. the bargain when the bay 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 the 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 long of you listen bill, something to still she just won tapings work was very political. is sculpture. silence is a head with the mouth plug. did the against the name, so it's a sculpture that conveys a sense of constraint on she's him. oh 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 da, she's looking at a distorted image of herself in

a cracked mirror. well cannot seem fairly busy let's it's, she seems lost a bit how much and confused home yachts here to hong roy was confident. the exhibition would be a sensation condemned handle. ah, we'll go for it. it's falling away and i went to the authorities every day to apply for an exhibition space. finally, the artist association told us to give up for that there was no way we would get it permanently because of an invalid bill for me to change. so we decided to exhibit outside the national art museum, the national guard or this is the offense, all of the is not a wall is all of the the, my toe. my boyfriend's perfect of hon. the pictures i

prefer. and then with just a title thought to prepare the show. ah, mary tony, because when we couldn't have the invitations officially printed, so we did it ourselves in secret doing g. and that he could see it by borrow to printing machine from my work place. or to that she did a comment utilize wife type the tanks and the she will not have that in the soup. that's how we organized the exhibition to until they ordered the framing, the hanging of the everything prepared until the the evening of the night of had you think that i think now adding credit, getting credit credit expire. exciting. i think that makes a lot on a whole busy with the them thing new everybody back to home collaboration.

oh no. anyway, the next morning, something like a salmon, the heat, a clock or something. it all got there. he was all tried the cold by the go, whatever, pick it from the all the different that isn't out of that miss saw the hum. honda show, ah woman or just send me easily. the translator we $23.00 explorers of our 2 are presenting our modest findings. the world offers boundless possibilities into those who wish to explore it. can we see the world with our eyes and engaging with our brushes and carving knives? cut the old o. dedicate our works to the earthman and to the people who clunk for wanting me.

susan, those people were 1st shocked, and then surprised garland a dia. of course, some people were baffled, they didn't understand homa, 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, really, that's what you tell me. one work was called cry of the people to learn this yourself all at the bottom of the picture. there were some small beijing style houses. small

bungalows damaged at the top r outstretched hands a t little angry hands now begging hands helpless, hands flung rheanna. thou one painting by hong re titled re bath, made a great impression on me with presents for the painting to next the ruins of the old summer palace. ega. shoot me cheery them you. at that time, many young artists went to the old summer palace to paint your quote, really focused on the ruins in the old domes, stones and columns at the palace there, shall i hear true without he depicted them as human beings. what were you got the feeling they were supporting and lifting one another arm. we've got you. it's an image that shows an awakening. china, so she did comp,

while it's cutting ball the ball, the paper on a southerly become the at very biggest thing or if it's outside the museum inside, there was an official exhibition. you shouldn't, that 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 the a lot of wonderful fav from all the different operations old officers took the soldiers that even the workers in patton, the student, val, youngsters, the old kind of people. ah

ah ah ah ah, this 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? there was a deathly silence. m don't take it all down, they shouted, mailed. no one moved to the police officer, turned around and bellow, did the crowd take everything down, which i had. i exhibitions are not allowed here. do you hear tanya? my long re woke forward and politely asked, why is the activation band? we would like to know what they did already. the police officer replied. if i say no exhibitions are allowed, and no exhibitions are allowed, that the police claimed we were disturbing the social order. under this pretext, the exhibition was ban.

ah, i doubt that you are that we saw it as a violation of the chinese constitution whom you citizens have the right to express themselves. he ended it all which ali pamela, they joined forces. they worked with the democracy while artists and political activists to demand freedom of art that zeal. i mean, we have no choice any more. we have to demonstrate. this is not actually what we want to do, but we will not allow the abuse and suppression of art to continue. this is the father schuman lee, was they editor of practically the most important of the democracy. charles, at that time, a proof of forum. she would

leave was a little bit older than the others and 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 that in a moment. sure. hi may. 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 to 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 are going that. does that? well, yeah, in our country for many historical reasons, there are no laws prohibiting what we have done when we want political democracy. we want artistic freedom to leo banning the exhibition of the styles is

a violation of the constitution. clearly that 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 new new did harvey lose it? your m t, we, foreigners were worried about our chinese friends sitting, saw the polar guess you? oh, they had provoked the party. the speeches were recorded with a tape recorder that had given to lou lane that he did that you lean ah ah, shall not a, should she to her, but don't shoot you over to chow, ning recorded every thing with

a film camera. bothersome maria ginger doing so. he risked his life journey in georgia to her to country. you'll drive. i shall take on her shawnee. the police immediately became aware of him and arrested him today. oh, i don't know how long he was forced to take the film roll out of the camera job and hold it up to the light to destroy the film better. oh, holla, was run showing 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. not a lot. he tricked the police the bolo. ah, didn't leave me here. i'm not 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 have had a,

there are enough copies for all of you. remember 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 senior people climbed trees to see to lay the short vigor gina, even it was so quiet. you could have heard a pin drop, legal, and you and me. then a police officer completely overwhelmed. told us we could march towards the beijing municipal building by a north shin wall street and che,

on send men. when you show it. gingerly the crowd was silent. jigsaw footsteps were in time with our hot beat. that was then we got to the beijing municipal building. ah and gave a speech of others it was funny, was i his walking stick? a pale ever very excited pair. like i said, and then put on the on the 7th day evelyn, oh oh oh oh oh oh citizens, what country mental,

i want you to know now you are human beings. we are all human beings. old. we have the right to speak. what is 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 a title of those who squander the public's money and abuse. the people go unpunished because of their political power out of hand. are we really all equal before the law? to laugh at your golden money? you had you were such a passionate young man, though. yeah. you know, you knew so much about the law. you even research any dontrael her. this is where leo, one chum took a photo of you from behind. i that ah, so i am, 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 shoe and lee declared the event over that weight. ah, was what? 5. why shy ari after his same he had said a word recently. you should a john, us in american iowa. ah, actually that's already their 1st stroke by the bailiff park. the 2nd place.

so i had my works in there. many landscape tribes, something like sal or van gone. the impression noticed the canvas sensitivity, they have i, at that time i was working for i shall smells, place to foreign tress, had the tremendous influence that there was almost a sort of dialog triangular dialogue between the foreign press and the chinese people and then shopping. 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,

which is my last article was titled, do we want democracy or in new dictatorship? almost everyone wanted the democracy for china, but not don, shall ping, in my opinion. he wanted a dictatorship. i this is one special edition of con, 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 thanks your pin turns out to be the same kind of take de terrace mo and 3 days later he was arrested grandmother i shouted go to democracy wall then tell people that waging chung has been arrested. will you be paula?

at that time i was insisted shibby. i saw a lighting man and the electrician to you again to the lighting for the trial. yes, for next day, i'm just walking in the pitching caught and nearly the midnight. um obama mother, someone knocking my door an oven and then there's a full of them came and they said that there's a pro series and then they took up a little cassette recorder i took it and that's the way i just recorded. would like to be sure i waited in a small restaurant for lou linkedin who was outside the court waiting for the cassette recorder. i leaned so that so as soon as you lay gave it to him, he went into the small restaurant and gave me the table the birds of that jago

dental one. after transcribing everything drop, we started printing. so woman, jodi, the unit that we printed over 2000 pages at my home being chem border, then we made big posters out of them and hung them on democracy wall. kendra m ha, we're using session, we published the entire transcript of waging chung's trial here. but a good one. and that showed the general public how the trial had been manipulated by the communist party and order sought yardage on. but the love ye shall done, shall ping wanted to send me to death 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 shaking

a little and the guards told me to come down. they thought i was scared, but in reality, i was happy to have survived. i did not die, gosh into you what? why delilah miss lad of day? oh, she knew 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 not 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 sure. do you. who do i think, was a marriage between chinese and foreigners? was forbidden at that time, especially embassy staff, hulu

. like gig del shall king at 1st allowed democracy wall to happen. but in march of 1979 dung shall. pink said, that's enough for that blue and shocking chinese young shall ping decided to chair down the wall. how the chickie maintained that the area needed to be renovated. so the wall had to be destroyed and replaced with a billboard. when to call her moved toward the tilt g. just chinese politics is sometimes flexible. and sometimes strict sonia, you're kinda clunky,

depends on the circumstances you dish down with dante. ah thought d jane you joe hall. i was in solitary confinement for over 10 years. bait, kuala, ah, shooting engine, you 5 of them in a sell your job. this marie education where you're supposed to think hardy taquila only engine you alone and a 3 square meter room down the us some to me the shelf that was the hardest part feed i should. yeah, sure what that james are all 3 gym i use the magician in and jonah to mail, and then after the 2nd art exhibition of the artist group, the stars further exhibitions were mand sooner we'll go closer than 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 when i just left, 1st to switzerland. eventually, france issued me a visa, ga, 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 from them. i can't sign something like that worship, unless you don't. when i left mainland china in 1985 with my parents were still alive. that was a long time ago now, and my parents have since passed away fully. i never returned to china with lemuel to actually to work

on that. the when i'm with managing with i'm always reminded of on time and the artist group, the starter motor back when we took all kinds of raising some data to be able to exhibit with all the saturdays. hello, is are you are 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 a book it sold to people soiled, 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 travelled 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 hadn't heard it. he said the yo saved my life, said

ind. 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 a glacial. ah ego. she banished the baby 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 was young, many of whom, right under pseudonyms and law will be assured me in the shall, forgot, ah, to the artist group. the stars is still significant generation. it's still relevant in china to day cookie sheet or sheila

comics i taught it was like hundreds of different flowers blooming at the same time . man. moving short to no don't wash, emma, what is changed? everything is changed to her, but you could also say that we're right where we started farther away. my european, one like the monkey king who can change into 72 shapes, but in the end, returns to what he is a monkey beholder. i told you before them mm you, each year and every one in the world wants freedom to chima the freedom to express themselves to build out the, the gods with angela bar, protecting human rights is something we all need to do. slower and duncan,

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