In 1999, contemporary Chinese artist Zhao Zhao was a rebellious 18-year-old planning a performance work to celebrate getting into Xinjiang Institute of Arts (now the Xinjiang Arts University). Inspired by To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain (1995), the performance in which ten young artists of the Beijing East Village (the short-lived avant-garde arts community of the 1990s), including Zhang Huan, gathered on Miaofeng Mountain and stacked their naked bodies on top of each other to add a meter to the mountain's height, Zhao was carefully planning his own foray into public nudity. His intention was to strip naked and run through the streets of Xinjiang, a deliberately incendiary act considering the sensitivity of the province's largely Muslim Uighur population. The police heard about Zhao's plans through local media coverage and hauled the young artist in for questioning. The performance was duly canceled and the artist was kept under surveillance for one year.