Zhang Xiaogang's "Big Family" is an oil painting series created in the 1990s that depicts Chinese families with a distinctive visual language combining Socialist Realism with contemporary portraiture. The work features figures with unnaturally pale skin, elongated faces, and an eerie uniformity that critiques the homogenization of identity under Communist ideology while exploring themes of kinship and alienation. Through its subversion of official propaganda imagery, the series became emblematic of contemporary Chinese art's engagement with the country's recent political and social history.