Ai Weiwei And Liao Yiwu Discuss Culture And The Individual In Modern China

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 02: Chinese poet Liao Yiwu has a drink as he waits for the beginning of a panel discussion at the Berlin International Literature Festival on September 2, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and Liao participated in a conversation about literature, contemporary art, and their relationships with Chinese authorities. Liao had been imprisoned for four years in 1989, and in 2011, Ai was detained and beaten by security officials and then imprisoned for 81 days, only to reclaim his passport this past July, after which he went to Germany to meet his his partner Wang Fen and their son Ai Lao. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)