探花直播

• Visual Culture
• Urban Culture
• Chinese Studies
• Women Aesthetics

• PgCert in Research Practice, 探花直播, UK (2019)
• MA Landscape Architecture, Nanjing University of the Art, China (2018)
• MA Landscape Architecture (distinction), 探花直播, UK (2017)
• BA Environmental Design, Zhejiang University of Technology, China (2015)

Student member of Landscape Institute, UK (2017鈥� present)

Ying is currently focused on the topic of Chinese square dancing, known as guangchang wu in Chinese, which is a contemporary and strikingly popular practice among middle-aged and older people in China. Square dancing as a daily routine is mainly performed by collective groups, with the essential elements of loud music, paved spaces and groups of dancers.

This timely interdisciplinary activity can be viewed as a unique phenomenon with distinct Chinese characteristics. The primary purpose of her study is to contextually explore the origin of the square-dancing development, especially to study dancing communities by analysing related aspects of social change, emotional needs and political relations.

Moreover, the key findings of the discussion on the definition of square dancing are that square dancing is not only a valuable new mechanism to cultivate nationalist ideology and patriotic sentiment, but it also embodies the shaping, indoctrinating and contesting of national ideological values.

In addition, square dancing can be understood as a demonstration of the significant transformation in body aesthetics for this generation of female dancers from the Mao period to the contemporary era. Finally, the reinterpretation of the concept of the square and the role of square dancing in urban daily life will be demonstrated.

Each chapter is dedicated to the discussion of square dancing, focusing on community, nationalistic dancing body, body aesthetics and the square.

Overall, it is understood that the phenomenon of square dancing has an ever-changing, dynamic path between top-down and bottom-up development; it is regulated by political ideology and cultural identity and thus affects people鈥檚 everyday lives.

Conferences Presentations:

• 鈥淪eeking the Healthy Ageing in Urban Public Spaces: A Case of Square-Dancing Spaces in China鈥�, presented at the "Spatiality and Temporality" International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, 12 February 2023
• 鈥淭he collective culture in China: The Dama鈥檚 body art in square dancing鈥�, presented at the 鈥淏orders, Cultures, Communities鈥� of PGR Studio Conference, 探花直播, 28 October 2022.
• 鈥淭elling Chinese Story Well鈥� With Popular Culture: Taking Square Dancing as An Example鈥� presented at the 鈥淐hinese Popular Culture in Translation and Transmission鈥�, the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, University of Leicester, 21-22 July 2022.
• 鈥淐loud Square Dancing under the Influence of Covid-19 pandemic鈥�, presented at the 13th Annual Conference of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) of 鈥淭he World, Two Metres Away鈥�, 探花直播, 9-10 November 2020.
• 鈥淪quare Dance in Urban Spaces in Contemporary China鈥�, presented at the Alchemies of Research PGR Studio Conference, 探花直播, 29 July 2019.

Published Journal Papers

• Sun, Ying, Dong, Mengdi "Reimagining the Female Body: Exploring Through the Contemporary Experimental Films In China", Arts Studies And Criticism, no. 3 (1), (2022): 65-71.
• Sun, Ying. 鈥淎 Study on the Differentiation and Evolution of Urban Social Spaces in Contemporary China: A Review of 鈥楿rban Social Space in China鈥樷��, Modern Urban Research (Xiandai Chengshi Yanjiu) (CSSCI), no.11 (2021):131-134.
• Sun, Ying. Weng, Yixi. 鈥淭he Role of the Landscape Architect in the 21st Century Fight against Climate Change鈥�, International Journal of Liberal Art and Social Science 7, no.10 (2019): 17-35.
• Sun Ying. 鈥淭he Aesthetics Relationship between Music and Spaces鈥�, Beauty & Times 3, no.743 (2018): 20-21.