Ai Weiwei loves cats--- and the Chinese artist

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tinear

tells you why in this interview that's well worth reading (accompanying video is cool, too):

"When I was growing up in Shihezi, China, in the 1960s, you didn't see families with pets, because of course communism is against private property, and any kind of compassion back then was deemed questionable. Animals were only valued as tools for productivity, as was the case with donkeys and horses, or for their meat. My mom's generation also tends to think that animals are dirty. Communism is very concerned with cleanliness - you have to be spiritually clean, physically clean - and so even a little bit of animal hair somewhere is unacceptable. When I built my own studio in Beijing in 2000, though, the first thing I wanted was to have some life in there. I bought one cat - the first cat - and took care of him for 20 years."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/12/t-magazine/ai-weiwei-cats (Open in New Window)

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Topic - Ai Weiwei loves cats--- and the Chinese artist - tinear 07:37:53 04/18/21 (0)

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