What are the things that reflect everyday Chinese aesthetics, and how can they influence the world?

Believing that each man-made object reflects a society’s technological skills and ideological aspects during a certain period, Wu Xuefu and his dedicated team have been seeking the answer for many years.

What we should be mostly clear about are the stance that we take and reality that we are in.Except for the features of aesthetics，the Chinese-style stuff for show in this book are also characterized by some interesting traits： intense ethnic preferences， improvisation，mixing of pragmatism， flexible accommodation, political tradition & legacy and gene of social system as well as mental state of show-off and affectation...We extract Chinese-style stuff from their ecological environments for an in-depth scrutiny of structural contexts and cultural connotations of the things themselves，trying to decipher the relationships between the stuff and the Chinese people and between them and the Chinese society.

Why attention on contemporaneous articles in common use in China ? For China whose influences to the world have been increasingly profound， we cannot present it to the world only with its serious politics， stereotype historical specimens or grand epic image of elitism. Instead we hope to explore cultural values in pristine and humanity manifested by concrete objects of everyday life （i.e.articles，architecture，imagery， men or women）and exhibit a live and animated China to the whole world.moral contexts and cultural connotations of the things themselves.