1st Edition

Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China On Electronic Household Appliances

By Wang Min’an Copyright 2018
115 Pages
by Routledge

115 Pages
by Routledge

115 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more

1. Washing Machine  2. Refirgerator  3. Radio  4. Television  5. Cellphone  6. Computer  7. Electric Light  8. Contemporary Household Spatial Production  9. Postscript



 

Biography

Wang Min’an is a Professor in the School of Literature at Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. He is a leading thinker and theorist in the humanities in China.