Alison Klayman was just 24, and a China novice, when she wandered almost by accident into the tumultuous life of Ai Weiwei, China’s most outspoken artist-turned activist, in 2008. The American journalist, from a conservative Jewish upbringing in Philadelphia, spent the better part of the next three years following him around with a video camera, capturing the struggle between Mr. Ai and the one-party government he accuses of corruption and inhumanity.
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