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Ai Wei Wei was born in the year 1957, the same year that the Anti-Rightist Movement was taking place. For Ai’s father Ai Qing, this year was life changing. He was widely known in China because of his famous poems. During the Anti-Rightist Movement, his father was then called a “rightist” in 1958. This led Ai Wei Wei’s family to exile from China and sent to camps in Beidahuang, Heilongjiang, Shihezi, Xinjiang.

Ai has taken his father to be a big part in his ideas: “[Ai in Chinese] My father had a strong influence on me. He was a man of principle” (Ai Wei Wei- Drifting 14:18). From living at labour camps to living in the Gobi desert for 20 years, Ai decided to enroll in schools to study animation.

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