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Disturbing the Peace (2009 film)

2009 documentary film directed by Ai Weiwei

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ48673899 ↗
Source-derived summary

Disturbing the Peace (Chinese: 老妈蹄花; pinyin: Lǎomā tíhuā) is a 2009 documentary film directed by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. In it, he and Pu Zhiqiang talk to police to discover what happened to a female colleague after a police raid on their way to Chengdu as witnesses in the trial of the civil rights advocate Tan Zuoren.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Disturbing the Peace (2009 film)” is 2009 documentary film directed by Ai Weiwei. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Disturbing, Peace and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. For this dossier, Disturbing, Peace and film is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “2009 documentary film directed by Ai Weiwei” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q48673899. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Disturbing the Peace (2009 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.