**Ai Weiwei *is one of the world's most important living artists. Born in 1957, he lives in Cambridge, UK.Allan H. Barris the author of a study in Chinese of a literary inquisition in the early Qing dynasty, Jiangnan yijie: Qing ren bixia de Zhuangshi shi'an 江南一劫：清人笔下的庄氏史案, and the translator of sev...

**Ai Weiwei *is one of the world's most important living artists. Born in 1957, he lives in Cambridge, UK.Allan H. Barris the author of a study in Chinese of a literary inquisition in the early Qing dynasty, Jiangnan yijie: Qing ren bixia de Zhuangshi shi'an 江南一劫：清人笔下的庄氏史案, and the translator of several books by contemporary Chinese authors, including Yu Hua's China in Ten Words and Han Han's This Generation *. He teaches Chinese at Pomona College in California.