CONTACT INFO
Chien, Shiuh-Shen
Distinguished Professor
Office : Room 201, Department of Geography
Email : schien@ntu.edu.tw
Phone : 886-2-33665832
BIOS
Dr. Shiuh-Shen CHIEN obtained his PhD degree from London School of Economics and Political Science, and now is a professor in geography, environment and development studies co-hired by Department of Geography and International Program of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, National Taiwan University. His research interests have covered: global south and international development, policy learning and mobility, political economy of local and regional development, critical smart eco urbanism, volume geography, and geoengineering in the Anthropocene context.
Dr. CHIEN’s publications can be seen in major journals of geography, urban studies, planning and development, and area studies like: Asian Survey, Asian Journal of Political Science, Area Development and Policy, Built Environment, China Information, Cross Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Environment and Planning D: Nature and Space, Geoforum, Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, the International Encyclopedia of Geography, Issues and Studies, Land Use Policy, Political Geography, Urban Studies, and Regional Studies. In addition, his book chapters can be seen in a series published by Ashgate, Palgrave, Routledge, Society and Space, and World Scientific.
Dr. Chien adopts a macro political economy theoretical understanding with the “field sciences” methodological approach (rather than model or lab sciences) to conduct geography, environment and development studies. His research projects used to be focusing on post-socialist China urban change and its related Chinese Communist Party-State political mechanism. In recent years, his academic attention has extended to environment and sustainability in a border sense. Two dimensions are particularly highlighted. First, Dr. Chien has engaged with so-called volumetric thinking (not area but three-dimensional) for better humanities and social sciences’ understanding on earth system dynamics, for example, human-atmosphere, human-ocean, and human-geology interactions. His published and under-reviewed papers have included weather modification offices in China, volumetric sovereignty and bordering between China and Taiwan/ Hong Kong, the elemental thoughts of the earth from subterranean explosion in Kaohsiung Taiwan, the fluid volume thinking behind air pollution politics of urban Taiwan.
Second, Dr. Chien has also promoted Taiwan’s new role in international development of the global south in general, and that in relation to 2030 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in particular. He figures out that there is a newly developed phenomenon of Taiwan’s aid since the 2010s, namely, from bilateral to multilateral cooperation, from technical to humanitarian assistance, from diplomatic to non-diplomatic alliance, and from pure state-driven to non-driven agents involved. He has conducted related empirical research in Asia Pacific (Kiribati, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands), South Asia (India), Africa (Eswatini), Caribbean Islands (Saint Lucia), Middle East (Jordan), and Inner Eurasia (Kyrgyzstan), all of which have various international development projects by Taiwan’s ODA (official development aid), Taiwan NGO aid, Taiwan citizen aid, and Taiwan enterprises’ development and charity activities.
Dr. Chien is also an academic advisor to Taiwan Alliance of International Development, a civic association advocating concepts of international development and cooperation from a view point of non-government-organizations. He is also an academic advisor to Taiwan Foundation of Children and Families, a Taiwan NGO in international social works specifying on childcare with seven overseas offices in Vietnam, Philippine, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Eswatini, Mongolia, Cambodia. His interviews and commentary essays also can be seen in some printed magazines and digital media.
Dr. Chien received Da-you Wu Memorial Award of National Science Council of Taiwan (2010), Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators (2013), Emerging Scholar Award of Regional Development and Planning of the American Association of Geographer (2013), and Outstanding Research Award of Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (2019).
RESEARCH
Dr. Shiuh-Shen CHIEN obtained his PhD degree from London School of Economics and Political Science, and now is a professor in geography, environment and development studies co-hired by Department of Geography and International Program of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, National Taiwan University. His research interests have covered: global south and international development, policy learning and mobility, political economy of local and regional development, critical smart eco urbanism, volume geography, and geoengineering in the Anthropocene context.
Dr. Chien adopts a macro political economy theoretical understanding with the “field sciences” methodological approach (rather than model or lab sciences) to conduct geography, environment and development studies. His research projects used to be focusing on post-socialist China urban change and its related Chinese Communist Party-State political mechanism. In recent years, his academic attention has extended to environment and sustainability in a border sense. Two dimensions are particularly highlighted. First, Dr. Chien has engaged with so-called volumetric thinking (not area but three-dimensional) for better humanities and social sciences’ understanding on earth system dynamics, for example, human-atmosphere, human-ocean, and human-geology interactions. His published and under-reviewed papers have included weather modification offices in China, volumetric sovereignty and bordering between China and Taiwan/ Hong Kong, the elemental thoughts of the earth from subterranean explosion in Kaohsiung Taiwan, the fluid volume thinking behind air pollution politics of urban Taiwan.
Second, Dr. Chien has also promoted Taiwan’s new role in international development of the global south in general, and that in relation to 2030 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in particular. He figures out that there is a newly developed phenomenon of Taiwan’s aid since the 2010s, namely, from bilateral to multilateral cooperation, from technical to humanitarian assistance, from diplomatic to non-diplomatic alliance, and from pure state-driven to non-driven agents involved. He has conducted related empirical research in Asia Pacific (Kiribati, Tuvalu, Marshall Islands), South Asia (India), Africa (Eswatini), Caribbean Islands (Saint Lucia), Middle East (Jordan), and Inner Eurasia (Kyrgyzstan), all of which have various international development projects by Taiwan’s ODA (official development aid), Taiwan NGO aid, Taiwan citizen aid, and Taiwan enterprises’ development and charity activities.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. London School of Economics and Political Science (2006)
M.S. National Taiwan University (1997)
B.A. National Taiwan University (1994)
COURSES
Globalization of China
International Development and World Geography
Research Methods in Human Geography
Local and Regional Development
Earth and Environment: Problems and Solutions
Studio on Climate Change and Human Settlement
PUBLICATIONS
| Author | Date of Publication | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yi-Ting Chang & Shiuh-Shen Chien | 2023-03 | Wind–Human Resonance in a Polluted City: The Case of Dalinpu in Kaohsiung, Taiwan | Annals of the American Association of Geographers |
| 簡旭伸與張怡婷 | 2023- | 大林蒲濱海地帶開發背後空間實作:以德勒茲與瓜達⻄的「平滑 vs 條理」 地理哲學為視角 | 都市與計畫 City and Planning |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen and Max Woodworth | 2022-10 | Entrepreneurial and Modular Urbanism in China: New Cities and New Areas in the 2000s | Transactions in Planning and Urban Research |
| 潘怡帆、鄭毓瑜、李育霖、周泰立、簡旭伸 | 2022-08 | 「生之動」的跨域共感:時空意識、認識體系與描述的關鍵性 (Interdisciplinary Sympathy in the ‘‘Movement of Life’’: Spatio-temporal Awareness, Systems of Understanding, and the Importance of Description) | 中國文學學報 Journal of Chinese Literature |
| Max D. Woodworth and Shiuh-Shen Chien | 2022-02 | New cities in China: Tracking urban projects in the city fringe | Geography Compass |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen and Yi-Ting ZHANG | 2021-12 | Explosion, Subterranean Infrastructure and Elemental of Earth in Contemporary City: Case of Kaohsiung, Taiwan | Geoforum |
| 張怡婷與簡旭伸 | 2021-12 | 量體流動與風的時空政治- 以大林蒲空氣/污為例 (Fluid Volume Thinking and Politics of Air/Wind: Case of Dalinpu, Taiwan) | 台灣人類學刊Taiwan Journal of Anthropology |
| Yithen WU and Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2021-03 | Northernization for Breaking-through International Isolation: Taiwan’s Trilateral Aid Cooperation in the Middle East Refugee Crisis and beyond | Development Policy Review |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen and Yithen W | 2021-02 | Trilateral Humanitarian Aid: Continuities and Changes in Taiwan’s Aid Policy before and during the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen | Navigating in Stormy Waters. Taiwan during the First Administration of Tsai Ing-wen, edited by Gunter Schubert and Lee Chun-Yi |
| 廖昱凱和簡旭伸 | 2019-11 | 地理學中的量體轉向：領土立體化、地球物理政治與環境中的情感氛圍 | 地理學報 |
| Chien, Shiuh-Shen | 2019-07 | Blueskying, Volumetric Sovereignty Part 5: Beyond The Earth | Society and Space |
| HONG, Dong Li, Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Yu-Kai LIAO | 2019-06 | Green Developmentalism and Trade-off between Natural Preservation and Environmental Exploitation in China, | Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen and Max Woodworth | 2018-06 | China’s Urban Speed Machine: the Politics of Speed and Time in a Period of Rapid Urban Growth | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen and Dong-Li HONG | 2018-04 | River Leaders in China: Party-state hierarchy and transboundary governance | Political Geography |
| Rebecca ‧Wang, Nina H.-L. Kao, Jay Hung, Chien S.-S | 2017-10 | NGOs in International Development: Case Study of Taiwan in South/Southeast Asia. | 遠景基金會季刊Prospect Journal |
| HONG, Dong-Li and Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2017-09 | Summoning Wind for Urban Cooling- Urban Wind Corridor Projects in China | Designing Cooler Cities: Energy, Cooling and Urban Form: The Asian Perspective |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen | 2017-09 | The Transnational Search of Chinese Eco-City Projects: Historical Legacies, Authoritarian Political Operations, and Social-Economic Dynamics | Sustainable Cities in Asia |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-shen, Dong-Li HONG and Po-Hsiung LIN | 2017-07 | Ideological and Volume Politics behind Cloud Water Resource Governance- Case of Weather Modification in China | Geoforum |
| Tan-Mullins, M., Cheshmehzangi, A., Chien, S. and Xie, L | 2017-01 | Smart-Eco Cities in China: Trends and City Profiles 2016 | |
| 簡旭伸 | 2016-12 | 威權環境主義流域治理的機制與限制：以中國昆明河長制度為例 | 中國大陸研究季刊 |
| 簡旭伸, 吳奕辰 | 2016-10 | 全球南方觀點下的國際發展與援助 | 發展研究與當代臺灣社會 |
| 王振寰, 簡旭伸 | 2016-10 | 導論─發展研究概述：理論發展與研究方法 | 發展研究與當代臺灣社會 |
| CHEN, Liangchih and Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2016-06 | Industrial upgrading and interaction between the advanced small south and China: the case of Taiwan’s machine tool industry | Area Development and Policy |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen and Chiu-Wan Liu | 2016-06 | Entrepreneurship, Social Networking and Cross-Border Cultural Identity in the Making - the Case of a Taiwanese Mazu Temple in China | Rethinking Social Capital and Entrepreneurship in Greater China |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2015-12 | Local Farmland Loss and Preservation in China- A Perspective of Quota Territorialization | Land Use Policy |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN, Xufeng ZHU, Tingjia, CHEN | 2015-12 | Self-Learning through Teaching: Singapore’s Land Development Policy Transfer Experience in China | Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen* and Litao ZHAO | 2015-09 | Development Knowledge and Resource Mobility via Diffusion of Local Government Entrepreneurship - Case Study of Post-Mao China | Issues and Studies |
| CHEN, LiangChih; Chien, Shiuh-Shen; | 2015-06 | Industrial Districts/ industrial complexes | The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen, Liangchih CHEN and Dongli HONG | 2015-06 | Newly Industrializing Economies (NIEs) | The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen, Dongli HONG and Yeilong WU | 2014-08 | Central Local Land Dynamics in Harbourfront Transformation- Case Study of Kaohsiung, Taiwan | Globalization and New Intra-Urban Dynamics in Asian Cities |
| CHIEN, Shiuh-Shen | 2014-06 | Taiwanese Architects and Post-Mao China’s Production of the Build Environment, in Border Crossing | Border Crossing in Greater China: Production, Community and Identity |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2013-08 | Chinese Eco-Cities:A perspective of Land-Speculation-Oriented Local Entrepreneurialism | China Information |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2013-01 | New Local State Power through Administrative Restructuring – A Case Study of Post-Mao China County-Level Urban Entrepreneurialism in Kunshan | Geoforum |
| 簡旭伸 | 2012-08 | 土地開發專案化與中國地方政府企業主義——以大學城和生態城為例 | |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN, Jici WANG, Yu HE and Ning-bo MA | 2012-07 | China as a Western Musical Instrument Producer- Case Study of Piano Industry | Industrial Transition: New Global-Local Patterns of Production, Work, and Innovation |
| 簡旭伸 | 2012-06 | 回應「發展研究特刊序」:從南方看另類發展 | 都市與計畫 |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Fulong WU | 2011-12 | The Transformation of China’s Urban Entrepreneurialism: The Case Study ofthe City of Kunshan | Cross Currents: East Asian History and Cultural Review |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2011-12 | Globalization, Urbanization and Decentralization- An Experience of Asian Pacific Cities | Handbook of Local and Regional Development |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Bing HO | 2011-07 | Globalization and the local government learning process in post-Mao China: a transnational perspective | Global Networks |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN, Tze-Po YANG, and Yi-Chen WU | 2010-12 | Taiwan's Foreign Aid and Technical Assistance in the Marshall Islands | Asian Survey |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Litao ZHAO | 2010-12 | Local Economic Transition in China: A Perspective on Taiwan Investment | China's Reform in Global Perspective |
| Shiuh Shen CHIEN and Yeilong WU | 2010-06 | Urban Governance from Below : A Case Study of Kaohsiung , Taiwan | Social Cohension in Greater China: Challenges for Social Policy and Governance |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2010-04 | Economic Freedom and Political Control in Post-Mao China: A Perspective of Upward Accountability and Asymmetric Decentralization | Asian Journal of Political Science |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2009-11 | Prefecture and Prefecture-level Cities- Political Economy of Administrative Restructuring | |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Litao ZHAO | 2008-11 | The Kunshan Model: Learning from Taiwanese Investors | Built Environment |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2008-10 | Local Responses to Globalization in China: A Territorial Restructuring Process Perspective | Pacific Economic Review |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2008-02 | Isomorphism of Regional Development Policy in China- Case Study of National-Level Development Zones in Jiangsu | Urban Studies |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Ian GORDON | 2008-02 | Territorial Competition in China and the West | Regional Studies |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Litao ZHAO | 2007-11 | Cross-Regional Cadre Transfer and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Jiangsu, China | |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2007-08 | Kunshan as “Little Taiwan”: China’s Most Industrial County-Level City | |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Mu YANG | 2007-07 | China Facing an Environmental Crisis | Interpreting China’s Development |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2007-07 | The Political Economy of Urban and Regional Development | Interpreting China’s Development |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN | 2007-04 | Institutional Innovation, Asymmetric Decentralization, and Local Economic Development-Case of post-Mao Kunshan, China | Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy |
| Shiuh-Shen CHIEN and Mu YANG | 2007-04 | The Tianjin Binhai New Area as China’s New Growth Pole |
GRANTS
| Fiscal Year | Plan Name | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 113 | 永續科學學門研究發展及推動計畫(3/3) | 共同主持人 |
| 112 | 2023臺灣與印度社會科學雙邊研討會：糧食安全、鄉村生計與永續發展 | 計畫主持人 |
| 111 | 天氣與社會關係初探：以馬祖離島與基隆港市為例 | 計畫主持人 |
| 111 | 「大學與地方政府合作推動地方人文發展與跨域治理」推動與協調計畫 | 計畫主持人 |
| 110 | 高齡化社區健康促進：以雲林城鄉為範例--利用氣象與環境參數建立高齡族群生活環境戶外熱壓力與舒適度空間指標之研究 | 共同主持人 |
| 110 | 再理論化量體政治: 以臺灣與中國霧霾治理為例 | 計畫主持人 |
| 108 | 再理論化量體政治: 以臺灣與中國霧霾治理為例 | 計畫主持人 |
| 108 | 國際發展三角合作再理論化：臺灣援助在約旦之個案 | 計畫主持人 |
| 107 | 都市速度機器、模組化都市主義與當代中國時空不規律 | 計畫主持人 |
| 106 | 補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫規劃主題：全球共同議題治理 | 計畫主持人 |
| 105 | 土地系統動態變遷之因果與機制研究--理論化工業發展脈絡下的去領地環境風險裝配：「都市－人造」與「區域－自然」兩種 尺度觀點 | 計畫主持人 |
| 102 | 綠色地方國家資本主義與其永續修補：後毛中國之個案 | 計畫主持人 |
| 100 | 中國環境治理：統合協力治理觀點--子計畫四：權力、資本、論述與生態城市：以中國為個案 | 計畫主持人 |
| 099 | 全球化下的後毛中國之“學習性地方政府” 之形成與轉化- 一個跨 (國) 界政策學習治理的觀點 | 計畫主持人 |
| 099 | 區域研究及地理學門國際期刊寫作及投稿研習營 | 共同主持人 |
| 098 | 補助人文及社會科學研究圖書計畫規劃主題：中國的都市化 | 共同主持人 |
| 097 | 中國大陸官員調動與再尺度政治之地方治理研究；一個非對稱地方分權的觀點 | 計畫主持人 |
AWARD
2019, Outstanding Research Award (Regional Studies and Geography), Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2018, NTU Research Publication Award, Taiwan
2017, NTU Research Publication Award, Taiwan
2016, NTU Research Publication Award, Taiwan
2015, NTU Research Publication Award, Taiwan
2014, NTU Research Publication Award, Taiwan
2013, Academia Sinica Research Awards for Junior Investigators (中央研究院年輕學者著作獎), Taiwan
2013 Emerging Scholar Award, Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group, the Association of American Geographers (the AAG)
2012 Publication Research Award, NTU, Taiwan
2011 Publication Research Award, NTU, Taiwan
2010 Publication Research Award, NTU, Taiwan
2010 Wudayou Young Scholar Award , National Science Council, Taiwan
2009 Publication Research Award, NTU, Taiwan
2009 Finalist, Young Scholar Competition, Foundation of Urban and Regional Studies, UK
2008 Finalist, Best Paper Competition of Berlin Roundtables on Urban Planets, Germany
2005 Best Student Paper, Regional Planning and Geography Specialty Group, the AAG
2004 Best Student Paper, China Geography Specialty Group, the AAG