At first glance, YiMiao Shih’s world looks disarmingly cute: flocks of rabbits, sugar-bright colors, toy-scale furniture and outlines that recall comic strips or children’s books. Look longer, and the scenes tilt into something more incisive. Those rabbits are stand-ins for voters, bureaucrats and anxious citizens; the toy houses are proxies for the impossibility of buying real ones; the stitched lines, so…