Ai Weiwei quietly returns to China after a decade: ‘It felt like a phone call suddenly reconnecting’

By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — In 2015, China handed back something of great value to Ai Weiwei: his Chinese passport. The move allowed the dissident artist to travel for the first time since authorities revoked his document in 2011 – the same year he spent 81 days in secret government detention for alleged tax