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Unconventional, creative, and highly original, Wang Minans 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. Wangs discussion on the reconstitution of Chinese domestic lifeits founding moral, aesthetic, political valuesis tremendously useful and enlightening. Read more