Hasta La Ideas

As with most stories, there are typically more than one side to them. Such is the case with the recent developments in Shanghai we reported on last week concerning the demolition of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei‘s studio on the outskirts of that city. Reader and Taiwanese-American community activist, Charles Liu, dropped us a line over the weekend, including a link to a story that had originally appeared in the Beijing-based business and financial magazine Caijing, which tells a decidedly different tale. Says Liu, “I am very sorry to say, these accounts paint a very different picture than the narrative being presenting by our media. [In my opinion, it’s] an example of sensationalist China reporting, these disproportionally one-sided narratives, twist of facts and half-truths, greatly contributed to America’s re-surging anti-Chinese sentiment I have witnessed.” In the interest of getting both sides of the story, and because Liu was very kind to translate the article and format it into key points, after the jump, you’ll find a rundown of Caijing‘s account of how Weiwei’s Shanghai studio met its end.
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