"The prominent Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has long used his fame and social media as a megaphone for his activism. It was because of his blogging and Twitter activity criticizing the government that he was detained by the Chinese police for nearly three months and had his passport taken away in 2011. And his Instagram posts of the last few years have brought increasing international attention to the refugee crisis, as has his documentary <i>Human Flow</i>, released last fall. But now Mr. Ai has returned to a more traditional form of expression: <i>Humanity</i>, a little blue book . . . that collects excerpts from Mr. Ai’s thoughts and aphorisms."<b>---Robin Pogrebin, <i>New York Times</i></b>

"Praise for Ai Weiwei's <i>Weiwei-isms</i>: "Here is a man who understands how to get messages to people. His expertise in artful dissemination is the 21st-century equivalent of Andy Warhol's brilliant populism.... [E]pigrammatic, pungent, uncompromising.""<b>---Peter Aspden, <i>Financial Times</i></b>

"A collection of impassioned quotations from Chinese artist and activist Ai that urge the developed world to assume a more charitable response to the global refugee crisis, the largest displacement of people since WWII. . . . This is not an analysis of the refugee crisis, but rather . . . field notes from the front lines. The result is a powerful and timely account of the refugee crisis that posits no easy solutions."

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