Ai Weiwei

China’s most iconoclastic modern artist, Ai Weiwei, has been under a lot of scrutiny lately. Police scrutiny, of the kind that entails video surveillance and plainclothes agents and that sort

Ai Weiwei Avant-garde artist Ai Weiwei is no stranger to microblogs, or to controversy. Nor is Hu Xijin, the outspoken editor of the state-run Global Times, who was recently profiled

Sina can't stop the signal, apparently. Ai Weiwei’s name is a banned search term on Sina Weibo. His account is blocked. And yet, Sina Weibo is still talking about him.

Last week, we reported that dissident artist Ai Weiwei — who had just received a tax bill from authorities to the tune of $2.4 million — was using Alipay and

via CNNGo Ai Weiwei, China’s firebrand modern artist, has never been one to shy away from controversy, or away from a fight with the government. His iconoclasm brought him to

Ai Weiwei, AFP There are concerns today that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been banned from Twitter by authorities, despite his recent release from prison. After protests on Facebook, Change.org,

For those of you keeping an eye to censorship in China, it has been an interesting week. On Wednesday Xinhua reported that a new State Internet Information Office will be

Activism website Change.org has been hit by a DDoS attack after running an online petition calling for the release of detained Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. At the time of

Ai Weiwei, an international artist and activist in China is still under detention. This morning, I got an interesting event invite from a friend on Facebook. The event is titled

Ai Weiwei, an outspoken Chinese artist on the lack of human rights in China was detained on Sunday at Beijing’s airport as he prepared to leave for Hong Kong. He