Rui Sun’s research while affiliated with The University of Hong Kong and other places

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“You Need to Listen to the Market!”: Making Decisions Through Senses in China’s Largest Cut-Flower Market
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April 2024

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American Behavioral Scientist

Rui Sun

The Dounan flower market can be a “hot and noisy” time and space, which is composed of the engine sound of motor tricycles, the grating of trailers rubbing against the concrete floor, the honks of reversing vehicles, and bargaining, chitchats, provocations, quarrels, and sometimes fighting. A booming market is a market clamoring with noise (auditory sense) and heat (an embodied feeling). In a couple of hours, floral traders deploy their embodied feelings of perception to make decisions on when to close a deal, what is a good price, and how to make bargains. My two ethnographic case studies—“you need to listen to the market” and “feelings of the market” delineate how the senses as a decision-making repertoire inform the everyday economic practices of floral traders in Dounan. At the interface of the sensory and the economic, I explore how rational, economic decisions are embedded into the “irrational,” sensory knowledge. Situated in sensory studies in Asia, this article elaborates the socio-cultural specificities inoculating the sensory knowledge of social agents without ignoring the nuances of how phenomenologically individuals engage in their everyday sensory practices.

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... Therefore, Fresh Flower product service as a resolution can be utilized to improve office environments to help officers alleviate stress to a certain degree around their work (Dijkstra et al., 2008;Deng & Deng, 2018;Meng et al., 2022). The second comes from the flower industry in the Dounan Flower Market, which is a renowned wholesale flower market in China (Huan & Dong, 2014;Sun, 2024). The third comes from the flower e-commerce/electronic commerce environment for online/offline shopping, which includes platforms such as live streaming and online shopping (Ye, 2022). ...

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Fresh Flower Product-Service Systems Designed with TRIZ Based Method
“You Need to Listen to the Market!”: Making Decisions Through Senses in China’s Largest Cut-Flower Market
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  • April 2024

American Behavioral Scientist