PhD thesis final - Royal Holloway, University of London

Chapter 4- Home, domesticity and belongingservices are provided within this form of residential community, such as various (leisure)facilitates like landscaped gardens, playgrounds, swimming pools, gymnasiums,common (reading) rooms, shops and restaurants (Plate 4.3.). In particular, objectstransported from Taiwan are always deployed in the Tai gan living quarters, or at least,there will be places for Taiwanese residents to go for Taiwanese products (e.g.foodstuffs, books, newspapers, magazines, etc.), such as cafés and shops (Plate 4.4.).Plate 4.1.Houses within the local gated communities (Shanghai)Plate 4.2. Gate and entrance post of a gated community (Shanghai)109