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SUMMARY:Building China: People’s Infrastructure
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DESCRIPTION:"Building China: People’s Infrastructure" invites audiences t
 o encounter China from the kitchen table and the street corner rather th
 an the skyline. Bringing together photographs and prints from the 1950s 
 to the 1980s with field images from the early 2000s and contemporary wor
 ks\, the exhibition traces urban change through the ordinary spaces wher
 e life unfolds.\n\nAcross work unit housing\, factory yards\, courtyards
 \, pavements\, parks and markets\, the exhibition foregrounds infrastruc
 ture as lived experience. Socialist era photographs reveal campaigns tha
 t sought to educate as they built\, capturing moments of collective labo
 ur and care. Reform era scenes register development in motion\, with unf
 inished structures and provisional arrangements shaping everyday routine
 s. Contemporary contributions attend to elevated roads\, pavements and p
 ublic spaces as shared infrastructures\, animated through drawing\, film
  and photography that remain attentive to movement and sound. \n\n"Build
 ing China: People’s Infrastructure" offers a portrait of continuous infr
 astructuring\, understood as the ongoing adaptation of spaces\, rules an
 d materials to meet everyday needs. By bringing the intimacy of routine 
 practices into focus\, the exhibition reframes one of the world’s most d
 iscussed urban transformations through the ordinary scenes that sustain 
 it.\n\nThis exhibition is supported by The Confucius Institute at The Un
 iversity of Manchester. CI is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2026 a
 nd this exhibition forms part of our celebrations. Exhibition launch det
 ails will be announced shortly.\n\nLead curator: Prof Deljana Iossifova 
 (Architecture & Urban Studies)\, University of Manchester\n\nWith contri
 butions from Deljana Iossifova\, Xin Li\, Qiwei Peng\, Ziqiu Ren\, Rujin
  Wang and photographs by the late David Lea.\n
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Central Library\, St Peter's Square\, Manchester\, M2 5PD
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