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Ai was placed under house arrest on In November 2010 by the Chinese police. Ai stated that this was a way to stop the planned demolition of the r= He said this was to prevent the planned party marking the demolition of his brand new Shanghai studio.

The building was blue printed by Ai himself with assistance, and potency coming from a "high official [from Shanghai]"  the new studio was a  part of a new traditionally design by Shanghai Municipal jurisdiction. He was going to use it as a studio and mentor different architecture courses. After the fact Ai has been charged with fabricating  the structure without the required approval and the knock down  notice has been processed, Ai said, officials had been anxious, and the paperwork and planning process was "under government supervision". According to Ai, a few different artists were invited to create and structure  new studios in this area of Shanghai because officials wanted to create a friendly environment.

Ai stated on 3 November 2010  the higher authorities  had let  him know him two months earlier that the newly completed studio would be knocked down because it was illegal and did not meet the needs. Ai criticized that this was biased, and he stated  "the only one singled out to have my studio destroyed". As reported by The Guardian Ai saying Shanghai municipal authorities were "upset " by documentaries on objects they considered delicate: two of the higher known ones featured Shanghai resident Feng Zhenghu, who lived in forced seperation  for three months in Narita Airport, Tokyo; another well-known documentary focused on Yang Jia, who murdered six Shanghai police officers.

At the end of the term, the group took place without Ai. All of his fans had river crab, an allusion to "harmony", and a euphemism used to jeer official censorship. Ai was eventually released from house arrest... the next day.

Like other activists and intellectuals, Ai was stoped from leaving China in late 2010. Ai gave an idea that the higher ups  wanted to stop  him from attending the ceremony in December 2010 to award the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize to fellow dissident Liu Xiaobo. Ai said that he was never invited to the ceremony, and was attempting to travel to South Korea in which he had an important meeting when he was told that he could not leave for reasons of national security.

On the day of January 11  2011, Ai's studio was knocked down and destroyed  in a surprise move by the  government.