Shao Yinong and Mu Chen, as a married couple, inquire into the meaning of family from China’s traditional perspective. The Family Register series is a familiar family portrait for most Chinese in their thirties or thereon. The generation of the parents in the photograph has experienced China’s most rapid changes, exposed to socialist labor and education, as well as capitalist labor and market mechanism over time. However, the progenies only know the capitalist market and its driving logic. The artists show this generation gap through a panoramic family history fashioned after traditional Chinese records of genealogy. The top portion of the characters’ attire-Mao jacket and ‘construction’ jacket-harbor socialist symbolism, whereas the bottom portions of their accouterments-skirts, shoes, and suits-point to the reality of our time in the market economy.