... also visited the mother of his two year old son. Officials returned to his studio on April 8th to examine his financial affairs when the next day his cousin and driver Zhang Jingsong and studio partner Liu Zhenggang both disappeared only to be released seventy-five days later. Ai's wife was interrogated about the tax affairs of the studio. Ai was ... during the earthquake. Two months before the opening of this exhibition Weiwei suffered a severe beating from Chinese police in Chengdu in August 2009, where he was trying to testify for a fellow investigator of the shoddy construction and ...

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