A review by caleb_tankersley
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei

5.0

A beautiful memoir of a very brave man. The books combines a personal family narrative (Ai Weiwei's father's story, and hopes for his son) with a political history of twentieth-century China. I also loved the philosophical musings on the possibilities for art not to exist in galleries or dusty shelves but to engage with the living world.