If the authorities thought that a few days of house arrest would scare Ai Weiwei into silence, they couldn't be more wrong. The artist who had to say goodbye to his Shanghai studio and is fresh off his release from house arrest blasted the government in an interview, saying, "This society is not efficient, it’s inhuman in many ways politically...the government, the whole system... sacrifices education, environmental resources and most people’s interests just to make a few people become extremely rich only because they are associated with the government." He also spelled doom for the CCP, “This cannot last too long.... This society basically has no creativity. It’s just cheap labor and very police-controlled. How long can that last? The Internet is the best gift to China - this kind of technology will end this kind of dictatorship." more ›

This famous line was said by a very famous professor, Yi Zhongtian （易中天）, on CCTV. Yi Zhongtian, a professor at Xiamen University, is famous for his lecture series on CCTV-10 about the Han Dynasty and one of China's classic masterpieces, Romance of the Three Kingdoms （三国演义). more ›