1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/85842 to listen full audiobooks. Title: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows Author: Ai Weiwei, Allan H. Barr - translator Narrator: David Shih Format: mp3 Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins Release date: 11-02-21 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 185 ratings Genres: Artists, Architects & Photographers Publisher's Summary: Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.