Ye Ying in mindmeters blogs an art conversation conference in Beijing, participants are from all over the world [1]. She quotes from a local Artist Ai Wei Wei: we need to know where we come from and what is the essence of our era; outsiders can't help us on this, this is a question related with our soul, and it can't be solved by building a few more museums.
Ai Wei-wei blogs the photos [2] from the conference.