Andrew Law

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• MA (Hons) Contemporary Sociology; PhD Human Geography
• Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University

This paper explores the contemporary use, for commemorative purposes, of Chinese heritage situated outside of China, in the built environment of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (United Kingdom). The focus of the paper is the recent history of five gravestones of Chinese sailors who came to Newcastle in the 1880s as part of a delegation to receive cruisers that...

Tourism has become an important economic pathway through which heritage is valued. This paper evaluates tourist perceptions of architectural heritage at a World Heritage Site by combining Global Positioning System-tracking, questionnaire survey, Ordered Probit Model, and marginal utility analysis, and compares it with a broader expert and state led...

This book explores and brings to light untold stories from the margins of Chinese society. It investigates and reveals grassroots and popular cultural beliefs, amusing anecdotes, items of lore, and accounts of the strange and the unusual. It delves into questions of identity formation, considering gender, sexuality, class, generational divides, sub...

My chapter discusses the ongoing debate in the United Kingdom over remembering the British Empire and its colonial era. While there have been efforts to remember and acknowledge the injustices committed during this time, I argue that more needs to be done to remember and understand Britain’s colonial role in East Asia, specifically the Opium Wars....

Architectural heritage is vulnerable to disasters. Digital technologies can fight destruction and can ensure integrity by monitoring, managing and protecting architectural heritage from disasters. In this paper, we clarify the relationship between disasters, digitalization and architectural heritage conservation for the sustainability of cultural h...

Overview of Khas Consider Activities

Book review

This paper explores how ideas and practices of elder-care may be changing for the new Chinese middle class. This paper draws on in-depth interviews with the members of different generations of ten middle class families in the Chinese city of Tianjin. It explores how increased resources but also increased pressure are affecting the care of older peo...

This intervention examines the extant literature on historical imaginaries and historic urban branding in China. It suggests that while research in this field has increasingly moved away from an economic (or an implicit neo-Marxist) model, there is still a lack of research on the role of broader cultural and state led discourses of nationalism in t...

In recent years, a small but growing body of scholarly work has emerged on the Hanfu movement in China. Researchers have drawn attention to globalisation, westernisation, national lifestyles, and development, the renaissance of Chinese culture, Han racism, Han ethnocentrism and xenophobia as drivers for the movement. In this article, we suggest tha...

Workshop organized by Annie Chan, held at Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich.

This commentary reviews the arguments made in An et al.'s 'Towards a Confucian Geopolitics'. Particularly, I consider An et al.'s main claim that a form of strategic and/or 'hybrid Confucianism' has played a significant role in the construction of contemporary Chinese geopolitics. While I accept aspects of this argument, this commentary also raises...

With the growing trend towards preserving global architectural heritage, the adaptive reuse of built heritage buildings is becoming increasingly popular; as commentators have noted, this popularity can in part be attributed to the economic, cultural, and social benefits they provide to urban communities. In considering adaptive reuse, urban develop...

Research into the sustainable development of scenic regions has drawn more interest from researchers even though it has been suggested that the field needs to consider the spatial-temporal behavioral characteristics of tourists. However, few investigations within the extant literature focus on intra-attraction based tourist behavior; indeed, curren...

Over the years interlocutors have pointed to the role of elites in the selective utilisation of history, memory, nostalgia and heritage within modern China; particularly, scholars have pointed to the role of Confucianism, humiliation history and totalitarian nostalgia within these hegemonic processes. However, with the exception of work on Shanghai...

The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as it has evolved from the ‘heritage turn’ that can be dated to the 1990s. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches to regionally and topically diverse case studies, the contributors to this edited volum...

Over the years interlocutors have pointed to the role of elites in the selective utilisation of history, memory, nostalgia and heritage within modern China; particularly, scholars have pointed to the role of Confucianism, humiliation history and totalitarian nostalgia within these hegemonic processes. However, with the exception of work on Shanghai...

A book review of Kevin Carrico's book The Great Han Race.

Drawing upon post-structuralist theories of heritage and Derridian theory in particular, this chapter examines the idea of 'absent-present' heritage: heritage that is non-existent, but whose trace remains in the present in a social, memorial and sometimes physical way. Exploring this theoretical approach to heritage, this chapter examines cultures...

As an important material carrier of rural landscape, English vernacular architecture has experienced five periods of germination, sample textual research, discipline establishment, academic formation and multi-dimensional vision since the 16th century, which has affected the residential architecture morphology in the same period accordingly. The re...

This article can be found online at: https://www.shine.cn/opinion/foreign-views/1806106094/

Son birkaç yilda, çin kentsel çalişmalari alaninda tarihi kentsel (yer) pazarlama ve kentsel markalaşma tartişmalari ortaya çikmiştir. özellikle, akademisyenler, Şanghay kentindeki yönetimin, girişimcilerin ve şehir plancilarinin yer pazarlamasi ve kentsel markalaşma amaçlari için yerel tarihten nasil yararlanabilecekleri üzerine sik sik tartişmala...

Andrew Law on Chinese ecologies - China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities by Austin Williams London: Bloomsbury, 2017 220pp. Price £17.99 (pb) - Volume 21 Issue 3 - Andrew Law

This paper opens up a discussion over the processes of forgetting and remembering that occur in the adaptive reuse of quite commonplace buildings that, nevertheless, have been classified as ‘heritage’. For most buildings survival depends upon finding a new economic use once original use has ceased. At this point decisions are also made about what s...

Local community space at historic sites is easily unsettled by the flood of numerous tourists, but arguably the negative impacts of hard tourism on community spaces are even more severe. Understanding the situation and seeking appropriate optimization strategies to balance urban tourist development and community space protection has gradually becom...

Local community space at historic sites is easily unsettled by the flood of numerous tourists, but arguably the negative impacts of hard tourism on community spaces are even more severe. Understanding the situation and seeking appropriate optimization strategies to balance urban tourist development and community space protection has gradually becom...

Different schools of thought on discourse have been taken up and reconceptualized by geographers through issues of space, place, landscape, the economy, politics (particularly geopolitics), and identity. Human geography is not simply a receptacle of discourse theory, but must be regarded as an agent of discourse theory in its own right.

The online version is here: http://www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editorial/3818

Developed a " House of Commons " style series of workshops for the Stage 3 Planning Theory and Politics course. It is a very political course that allows students to debate philosophical and political issues, from issues around social justice, to issues concerned with the environment and capitalism to more specific debates relating to exclusion, su...

The idea that ‘the countryside’ is a multifaceted concept subject to a range of discursive ‘constructions’ has been well established in Western contexts, with their long history of urbanization, for a number of years (cf. Murdoch et al. 2003). In contexts such as China, where mass urbanization is a more recent phenomenon, there has been little if a...

Introduction: Humiliation Discourse In recent years, scholars and commentators (such as Gries 2004; Broudehoux 2004; Callahan 2010; and Wang 2012) on China’s political history and national identities have noted the ever increasing rise in a complex set of narratives that proposes that from the Opium Wars of the 1840s to the Japanese invasion of the...

Abstract: In the UK retrofitting, or ‘retrospective refitting’ has become a central strategy in reducing energy inefficiency and carbon emissions. However, whilst implementation has increased, research shows that there are still several problematic barriers to the full implementation and embedding of energy efficiency retrofit policies. Likewise, i...

Publisher: Zhongguo Chengshi Guihua Sheji Yanjiuyuan http://www.oriprobe.com/journals/gwcsgh.html

This article makes a claim for a new kind of critical urban conservation position; the article explores the growing demolition of the old quarters of contemporary Chinese cities; specifically it is argued that whilst demolition appears like a quick way to free up economic dividends from the land, developers and place-makers are missing out on a who...

This chapter focuses on the use of Tudoresque architecture overseas, where it began as an expression of Britishness, but since then has come to have other connotations along the way. It describes examples from 1920s America which show that Tudoresque architecture can flourish without the support of a British expatriate community; and Tudoresque bui...

The distinctive black-and-white houses from Singapore's colonial era that survive in enclaves as fine dwellings for the present-day elite have been recognized and documented as a type. In this paper we tell the story of their cultural formation, which is one of remarkable hybridity. Various influences were brought to bear and resolved into the blac...

This book extends the concept of British vernacular architecture beyond its traditional base of pre-modern domestic and industrial architecture to embrace other buildings such as places of worship, villas, hospitals, suburban semis and postwar mass housing. Engaging with wider issues of social and cultural history, this book is of use to anyone wit...

Notes: This is a Monthly Publication of the Ministry of Commerce, People's Republic of China. http://www.caitec.org.cn/c/en/news/2011-04/08/news_2585.html

This paper assesses the degree to which a typical regional theatre engages with society. It uses postcodes from theatre booking data and compares the socioecenomic profiles of these postcodes with postcodes from which no theatregoers are drawn. A re-working of recent theories of class provides a conceptual context, whilst discriminant analysis is u...

The idea of the historic city has often been discussed through debates about conservation and development. In recent years some writers have discussed the idea of the historic city through concepts of sustainability and particularly the idea of social sustainability. However, although sustainability is important, the idea that local communities pla...

Architectural Conservation and EnglishnessRuralizing the CityWorking with Modernism and AfterwardsThe Development of a Regional Englishness: Landscape Individuality and CitizenshipThe Urban TownscapeThe Narrative of Citizenship and a Visualization of a Broader National LandscapeThe Cultural Capital of Architectural Conservation and Symbolic Inversi...