Sun Zhijian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3081986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sun Zhijian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sun |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhijian |
| SIGNATURE | ZHIJIAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhijian Sun is a PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore, College of Design and Engineering, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore 119077, Singapore, ORCID iD: email: . |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0920-7978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Discomfort, Decolonization, Decarbonization
Between 2010, when Qatar won the World Cup bid, and 2021, the year before the tournament was held there, over 6,500 deaths of South Asian migrant workers were reported, most of which were classified as ‘natural causes’ rather than work-related injuries (The Guardian, 2021). Despite Qatar's celebration of the ‘sustainable cooling technology,’ few migrant construction workers enjoyed the air-conditioned comfort in new stadiums (Inside FIFA, 2022). …
Shared streets as lived space
Thermal technocracy
Based on archival materials from Guangzhou, Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai ranging from technical manuals and architectural drawings to published memoirs, this article contributes to existing literature on China’s subtropical modern architecture by offering a nuanced techno-political narrative. Instead of attributing the development of subtropical architecture merely to the genius of certain individuals, it attends to a broader network of state-run …
Framing China's tropics
This paper seeks to position socialist China in the mobility of global socialism in the context of Cold‐War politics. It examines how the techno‐politics of China and the Soviet‐bloc's socialist tropical architecture differently reconfigured thermal exchanges between the environment, human body and a series of other multi‐scalar things in Africa during the 1960s−1980s. Drawing on the theories of thermal material culture, techno‐politics and scien…
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Framing China's tropics
This paper seeks to position socialist China in the mobility of global socialism in the context of Cold‐War politics. It examines how the techno‐politics of China and the Soviet‐bloc's socialist tropical architecture differently reconfigured thermal exchanges between the environment, human body and a series of other multi‐scalar things in Africa during the 1960s−1980s. Drawing on the theories of thermal material culture, techno‐politics and scien…
Shared streets as lived space
Thermal technocracy
Based on archival materials from Guangzhou, Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai ranging from technical manuals and architectural drawings to published memoirs, this article contributes to existing literature on China’s subtropical modern architecture by offering a nuanced techno-political narrative. Instead of attributing the development of subtropical architecture merely to the genius of certain individuals, it attends to a broader network of state-run …
Discomfort, Decolonization, Decarbonization
Between 2010, when Qatar won the World Cup bid, and 2021, the year before the tournament was held there, over 6,500 deaths of South Asian migrant workers were reported, most of which were classified as ‘natural causes’ rather than work-related injuries (The Guardian, 2021). Despite Qatar's celebration of the ‘sustainable cooling technology,’ few migrant construction workers enjoyed the air-conditioned comfort in new stadiums (Inside FIFA, 2022). …
China (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · Architecture (1 work) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (1 work) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 work) · Climate change (1 work) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)