. >> stephen: please welcome allison claman. (cheers and applause) hey, allison.llison, let's educate the people here a little bit as to who iwaiway is. put up the first slide. >> that is probably the way he maybe best known in the west which is helping design the birds nest olympic stadium can. because of his outspokenness he distanced himself from the olympics. >> stephen: is that where the trouble started for him. >> that may be where the trouble started. but it got really big when he wrote about that on his blog. and when he did activism around the earthquake in may 2008 and wanted to commemorate the children who died in that earthquake. and he startedded citizens investigation to collect those names. and you know, that eventually led to them shutting off his blog. that lead to them even beating him. he needed emergency brain surgery. >> stephen: let's go to the next slide here, jim. >> this is his studio. >> that's right. that's a new studio, actually the government invited him to build in shanghai. right when it was finished, they went in and tore it down. >