How many Chinese citizens took part in Ai Weiwei’s Fairytale project?

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Chinese activist and artist Ai Weiwei in 2019, facing the camera and wearing a black zip-up jacket. — Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei, 2019.

For his 2007 conceptual project Fairytale, Ai Weiwei transported 1,001 ordinary Chinese citizens to Kassel, Germany, to explore the city during the Documenta art festival.1