Sylvia Chan is a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong, and her research interests include architectural representations, translations in architecture, and the concept of Chineseness. Her dissertation working title is “Construction of Chineseness in Architecture through Translation from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1959.” Sylvia is the author of Writing In(to) Architecture: China’s Architectural Design and Construction Since 1949 (East Slope Publishing, 2012) and Style: In Defence Of… Chinese Architecture (Machine Books, 2017). She has published in Singapore Architect and Indesign Australia, and she writes for Indesignlive.