ABSTRACT
The concept of family in China today is undergoing a dramatic change. Nowadays household management and marriage are no longer maintained by ethical considerations. On the contrary, it is the living space that is increasingly affecting household production. In actuality, the family throughout history has always been a spatial presence in the first place: there would be no unbreakable family were there no fixed living space. Living space is the absolute prerequisite for the family. A new politics of spatial production is quickly activated, and, in no time, people's conception of space is undergoing a radical change. Both conflict and friendship are inscribed on the residential space. Today, conceptual politics is replaced by politics of residential space, ideological politics by spatial politics. Spatial expansion is a form of instinctual endeavor propelled by the Nietzschean will to power: space is in pursuit of spatial expansion, of its own multiplication.
