Homes, Guilin, 2016 ‘Overcrowding is a nearly normal state in China. They learn to live together, and I think that they do not envisage living space as we do in the west. For example, grandparents live with their children in spaces that are sometimes very small; in the west, it is more normal to separate us in adulthood, and see each other only a few times a year’

Photograph: Marilyn Mugot