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The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

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[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society's level of civilization.

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I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

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The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.

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The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: "You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous." That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.

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China's culture and history are closely related to my living environment. This country is my birthplace. It is also where I grew up. Its culture and history shape my relations with family, friends, society, and daily life.

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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don't know how I became successful.

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Maybe [success] is because I'm in China and I'm more open. Maybe it's my independent behavior, or because I participated in certain projects. I have no idea.

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Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.

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The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there's still a one-party system and strong censorship.

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New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.

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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.

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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?

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Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

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Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

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The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

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The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

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