Wang Min'an, "Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household Appliances "
English | ISBN: 0415784859 | 2017 | 101 pages | EPUB | 384 KB
Unconventional, creative, and highly original, Wang Min'an's work centres on the assemblage of household machines that create the space of contemporary domesticity. It offers pathways to a new understanding of how the sudden commodification of domestic space in China beginning in the late 1980s has transformed Chinese domestic life beyond recognition. In terms of modern urban Chinese family life, people do not just move into new apartments; they move into new modes of living which involve new ways of relating to the world. Wang's discussion on the reconstitution of Chinese domestic life―its founding moral, aesthetic, political values―is tremendously useful and enlightening.