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It describes how dominant ideology distorted personal facts during his upbringing, why his father rarely spoke of the past, and how the narrator later began to consider earlier experiences. After April 3, 2011, eighty-one days of confinement prompted renewed contemplation, including imagining life behind bars in a Nationalist prison and recognizing how fractured early memories shaped identity.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2021 by Ai Weiwei  \nAll rights reserved.  \nPublished in the United States by Crown, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random  \nHouse LLC, New York.  \nC􀂖􀂓􀂛􀂒 and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.  \nSimultaneously published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2021 .  \nArt credits appear on this page.  \nL􀂍􀂆􀂖􀂅􀂖􀂝 􀂓􀂊 C􀂓􀂒􀂋􀂖􀂉􀂗􀂗 C􀂅􀂘􀂅􀂐􀂓􀂋􀂍􀂒􀂋-􀂍􀂒-P􀂙􀂆􀂐􀂍􀂇􀂅􀂘􀂍􀂓􀂒 D􀂅􀂘􀂅 Names: Ai, Weiwei, author. | Barr, Allan Hepburn, translator.  \nTitle: 1000 years of joys and sorrows / Ai Weiwei; translated by Allan H. Barr.  \nOther titles: One thousand years of joys and sorrows  \nDescription: New York: Crown, [2021]  \nIdentifiers: LCCN 2021028838 (print) | LCCN 2021028839 (ebook) | ISBN 9780553419467 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780553419474 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593240694 (international edition) Subjects: LCSH: Ai, Weiwei. | Expatriate artists—Great Britain—Biography. | Artists—China—Biography. | Dissenters, Artistic—China—Biography.  \nClassification: LCC N7349 .A5 A2 2021 (print) | LCC N7349 .A5 (ebook) | DDC 709.2 [B]—dc23  \nLC record available at [lccn.loc.gov/2021028838](lccn.loc.gov/2021028838)  \nLC ebook record available at [lccn.loc.gov/2021028839](lccn.loc.gov/2021028839)  \nEbook ISBN 9780553419474  \n[crownpublishing.com](crownpublishing.com)  \nBook design by Barbara M. Bachman, adapted for ebook  \nTranslation by Allan H. Barr  \nCover design: Ai Weiwei  \nep_prh_5.7.1 _c0_r0  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nChapter One: Pellucid Night  \nChapter Two: Hearts Are Burning  \nChapter Three: Snow Falls on China’s Land  \nChapter Four: Toward the Sun  \nChapter Five: The New Epoch  \nChapter Six: The Gardener’s Dream  \nChapter Seven: From Far Northeast to Far Northwest  \nChapter Eight: The World Is Yours  \nChapter Nine: Freer Than the Wind  \nChapter Ten: Democracy or Dictatorship?  \nChapter Eleven: “New York, New York”  \nChapter Twelve: Perspective  \nChapter Thirteen: FAKE Design  \nChapter Fourteen: Fairytale  \nChapter Fifteen: Citizens’ Investigation  \nChapter Sixteen: Disturbing the Peace  \nChapter Seventeen: River Crab Feast  \nChapter Eighteen: Eighty-one Days  \nChapter Nineteen: Living the Best Life We Can  \nDedication  \nAcknowledgments  \nPhoto Insert  \nArt Credits  \nArtwork Descriptions  \nAbout the Author  \nAbout the Translator  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n􀂇􀂌􀂅􀂔􀂘􀂉􀂖 􀂓􀂒􀂉  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPellucid Night  \nI  \nBoisterous laughter erupts along the path  \nA bunch of boozers stumble out of the sleeping village Clatter their way toward the sleeping fields  \nOn this night, this pellucid night  \n—􀂐􀂍􀂒􀂉􀂗 􀂊􀂖􀂓􀂑 “􀂔􀂉􀂐􀂐􀂙􀂇􀂍􀂈 􀂒􀂍􀂋􀂌􀂘,” 􀂛􀂖􀂍􀂘􀂘􀂉􀂒 􀂆􀂝 􀂑􀂝􀂊􀂅􀂘􀂌􀂉􀂖 􀂍􀂒 􀂅 􀂗􀂌􀂅􀂒􀂋􀂌􀂅􀂍 􀂔􀂖􀂍􀂗􀂓􀂒 􀂍􀂒 1932  \nwas born in 1957, eight years after the founding of the “New China.”My father was forty-seven. When I was growing up, my father rarely talked about the past, because everything was shrouded in the thick fog  \nof the dominant political narrative, and any inquiry into fact ran the risk of provoking a backlash too awful to contemplate. In satisfying the demands of the new order, the Chinese people suffered a withering of spiritual life and lost the ability to tell things as they had truly occurred.  \nIt was half a century before I began to reflect on this. On April 3, 2011, as I was about to fly out of Beijing’s Capital Airport, a swarm of plainclothes police descended on me, and for the next eighty-one days I disappeared into a black hole. During my confinement I began to reflect on the past: I thought of my father, in particular, and tried to imagine what life had been like for him behind the bars of a Nationalist prison eighty years earlier. I realized I knew very little about his ordeal, and I had never taken an active interest in his experiences. 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