Siyu Tang is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, UK. Her research is broadly concerned with the cultural forms materialised through political and economic events in contemporary China. Her doctoral thesis, titled ‘Phantom Real Estate: Imagining and Inhabiting Housing of China’s Rust Belt’, investigates how homeownership—and the ‘good life’ of social belonging it signifies—has come to function as a ghost-like form that mediates reality and not-yet-reality, while shaping temporal experiences of a precarious present and imagined futures.
‘I have saved up 50,000 yuan, planning to buy a house in Hegang. I will budget 30,000–40,000 yuan for the house itself, and the remaining 10,000 for living supplies.’ This post went viral on the Chinese online forum Baidu Tieba in May 2019, attracting more than 10,000 comments and extensive journalistic coverage (Longtoulaoda 2019). In […]
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