"He", an ancient Chinese scholar in an official's high-topped hat and gown, with a never-changing solemn expression, appears like a ghost in public or private places in Western countries. He either stands among throngs of people in an airport lounge , or stands beside a car assembly line in a deserted workshop, or is present in the midst of the Chinese students protesting in Bonn against the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, or sits properly at a dinner table of a German family in neat and formal clothes.
As a guest of a German family', 2002-2004. In this work Miao Xiaochun uses a life-size figure clothed in ancient Chinese costume and places it in unusual places. For example, sitting down to dinner in the home of a German family .
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