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. In these essays, the author
stages a Latourian collapse of subject and object in adopting the
point of view of both human and non-human actants. This volume
brings a new sensibility to bear on objects of modern everyday
life. This work is not a "China book," but rather a work marked
profoundly by China. Wang experiments with the applicability of
"theory" to what might be thought of as a transcultural common life
embedded in mundane technologies. The book is particularly
concerned with rescuing everyday materiality and bodily life from
the numb obscurity to which things have been relegated by modern
consumerism and bourgeois hygiene. This book is not an oddity from
the mysterious East; it is a playful experiment in writing from a
unique scholar, a leading thinker and theorist in the humanities in
China, and will be of interest to scholars and students of East
Asian, particularly Chinese, political and domestic studies.
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