Figures & data
FIGURE 1. The billboard reads: ‘Speed up the construction of our nation’s cities’. (Still Empty Home, minute 14.19).
FIGURE 2. The shop in the campus area of Wuhan where Wendy lived in 2016, two hours of travel time from the apartment her parents had bought in the outskirts of Wuhan. (Stills Empty Home, minutes 12.00 and 12.59).
FIGURE 3. Wendy shows meaningful objects in the house, such as the shoe cabinet and the textile flowers. (Stills Empty Home, minute 03.35 and 15.15).
FIGURE 4. (a). The bedroom with the blankets that were given as part of the dowry and the wedding picture in the window. (b). The new sofa in the living room. (Photographs by Willy Sier during a visit to a marriage house on 4 February 2016).
