ai weiwei's blog: vertaald uit chinees

2011 MITTpress

"The opinions expressed in this book are all those of the autor. (...) The Internet became the primary source for such annotations, and as this book was assembled in China, fact checking necessitated "leaping over the Great Firewall", which in 2008-2009 was constantly updating its Internet-monitoring software and methods. At last, using a VPU allowed access to almost all websites otherwise unavailable to the average mainland browser (including Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and occasionally Flickr). But once over the firewall, a more serious challenge was posed in reconciling the often extreme differences between Western and Chinese sources. These discrepancies are perhaps the last vestiges of the Cold War. I hope that through more translations like this one, our two civilizations can reconcile the 'facts'." Lee Ambrozy