{"id":4875,"date":"2013-09-10T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T01:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2017-04-03T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T22:34:51","slug":"film-screening-ai-weiwei-never-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/2013\/09\/10\/film-screening-ai-weiwei-never-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"EVENT: Film Screening: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (9\/16\/2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\nAI WEIWEI <\/strong>is China&#8217;s most famous international artist, and its most  outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and  an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people  through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut  down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held  him in secret detention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aiweiweineversorry.com\/\"><strong>AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY<\/strong><\/a> is the inside story  of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and  blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison  Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist  in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of  contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figure.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, September 16, 2013<br \/>\n6 &#8211; 8 PM<br \/>\nBoston University Photonics Center<br \/>\n8 St. Mary&#8217;s Street, Room 206<\/h3>\n<p>The  film will be introduced by historian and journalist <strong>PETER RAND<\/strong>, author  of several works of fiction and non fiction, including the novel  Firestorm and China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American  Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution, a work  of narrative non fiction. Peter maintains a dedicated interest in China,  and has translated and edited four important works from their Chinese  editions, most recently <em>Gao Wenqian\u2019s Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect  Revolutionary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute for East  Asian Studies at Suffolk University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI WEIWEI is China&#8217;s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7613,7617,84,7584],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4879,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/asian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}