The Subconscious Invasion investigates the pervasiveness of the Chinese government’s “one-child” policy in controlling, restricting and constructing reproductive freedom and planning for millions of families. Even if the policy was suspended in 2016, regrets, guilt, and hatred are still palpable in China's contemporary emotional/affective landscape. In particular, the project wants to foreground the role of the propaganda objects - calendars, posters, matchboxes, card decks, etc. - widely circulated to persuade citizens to prioritise the national interests over the personal, at the same time, shaming and intimidate those who resisted. The ambiguous familiarity and playfulness of these objects, their discrete invasion of the domestic sphere, testifies to the attempt at blurring the distinction between reproductive and nation-wide planning, individual and collective rights, and private and public spheres. A blurring of borders still today affects millions of people's emotional landscape across generations.