Staff Profile
Dr Andrew Law
Newcastle Director of the Confucius Institute; Senior Lecturer in Town Planning.
- Email: andrew.law@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
Room 8.24
8th Floor Henry Daysh Building (formerly known as the Claremont Tower)
Newcastle University
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
Current roles and responsibilities
September, 2022: Director of the Confucius Institute at Newcastle University.
December, 2020: Chair of the School's library committee
Past roles and responsibilities
April, 2022-January, 2023: Deputy then Acting Director of Internationalisation and Reputation in APL.
September 2021-March, 2022: Acting Director of the Confucius Institute at Newcastle University
September 2013-August, 2018: Degree Program Director of the BA (Hons) Architecture and Urban Planning in APL.
Academic Biography
My research examines the way in which societies and individuals understand, process, interpret and/or narrate their pasts; I have conducted research on social theory, the history of ideas, historical imaginaries, collective memory, national myths and narratives, nostalgia, the politics of history and the uses and abuses of history and/or the past more broadly. In my career, I have often examined these themes in relation to architecture, townscapes, urban conservation, built heritage, intangible heritage and urban place branding. While my early research explored British/English cases, since 2010 I have investigated Chinese case studies. In this respect, I have become an enthusiastic student of Chinese studies (Sinology).
Broadly speaking my research interests relate to:
Social theory
Sociological theory
the history of ideas
historical imaginaries
Collective memory
nostalgia
the politics of history
the politics of the past
the uses of the past
the use and abuse of history/the past
heritage
Historical place branding
Nostalgic place branding
Faux history
Historical simulacra
nationalism
national myths
national narratives
race and ethnicity
Chinese studies
Subject areas
Very specifically, my work might be placed within the following subject areas: the sociology or anthropology of the past; the politics of the past; collective memory studies; public history and heritage studies. But beyond these specific areas, hopefully my research speaks to the disciplines of sociology, history, human geography, architecture, planning and Chinese studies more broadly.
Visiting academic positions
I have been a visiting scholar, visiting researcher and/or a visiting lecturer at the following institutions:
Citic Design and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) (August, 2023); Xi'an Jiaotong University (March-April, 2019); Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (July, 2017); Xiamen University (July, 2017); Xi'an University of Architectural Technology (May-July, 2013); Wuhan University (March-May, 2013); Peking University (February, 2013; August, 2013).
Recent Work: Chinese cultural history and urban studies
In recent years, I have become a very enthusiastic student of Chinese studies (Sinology). I say student because my Mandarin needs to improve and because I am still finding my feet, I often work in teams with other Chinese researchers. Specifically, my research has mainly been concerned with Chinese culture, nostalgia, politics, heritage and urban development.
On my travels to China I have visited the following very interesting places: Beijing, Changsha, Chengdu, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Jining, Macau, Qingdao, Qufu, Shanghai, Suzhou, Tai'an, Wuhan, Xiamen and Xi'an. In the near future, I hope to visit more places in the PRC.
Applications for Doctoral Work
I welcome applications for doctoral study; I welcome students, who want to develop projects on urban development, time, memory, nostalgia, identity and heritage; And of course, reflecting my recent work, I am very interested in project students that are keen to study issues in and around Chinese culture, nostalgia, politics, heritage and urban development.
Languages: Mandarin
Above tourist level Mandarin (but a long way to go yet): On the 6th of January, 2016 I learnt that I passed the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK) level 2 Mandarin Chinese Proficiency test. In the future I shall study for the HSK Level 3 Mandarin Chinese Proficiency test.
Outside of Work
Outside of work I am a keen walker and Chess player. I love reading novels, listening to music and watching movies. When I was younger I enjoyed Skateboarding. While I skate less these days, (injuries take a longer time to heal) I still take an interest in Skateboarding culture broadly.
Creative Writing
Alongside my academic writing, I have also tried to produce some creative writing. Recently, I have had a piece published on Cullercoats, North Shields (with Illustrator Michael Duckett) in an Anthology on the Sea produced by Paper Jam Comics Collective. You can find it here: https://paperjamcomics.bigcartel.com/product/the-sea-and-that
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Research websites:
My ORCID ID number is: 0000-0002-8403-3971
my research can be accessed at the following websites:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Gu9A6DYAAAAJ&hl=en
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Law-5
https://newcastle.academia.edu/AndrewLaw
https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0002-8403-3971
Law, Andrew - Author details - Scopus
Editorial Boards
I am currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural/Planning Research and Studies (JARS) (as a consultant).
I am currently on the Editorial Board of the journal Built Heritage (part of Tongji University Press).
I am currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism (JCAU)
Academic networks
April 2021: I am a member of the GU design (genealogy of urban design) network. https://gudesign.org/members/andrew-law/
September 2019: I am a member of the Hong Kong Studies Association (HKSA)
December 2017: China ports network – https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/china-ports/china-ports-network-members.aspx
July 2014: I am a member of the British Association of Chinese Studies (BACS).
I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.
Specific research areas:
In recent years, I have become a student of Chinese studies (Sinology); at present I am exploring 6 specific lines of research in China; these investigations include:
1) the history of ideas in China especially traditional ideas and the role of these concepts in the present.
2) research into the role of humiliation and rejuvenation discourses
3) research into historic place-branding and the use of historical themes and imaginaries in the marketing of Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Wuhan and Xi'an; recently, I made a 3-minute video outlining this research for Newcastle University’s Cities NUCORE: https://flipgrid.com/6ac60c6d
4) specific research into the historic urban branding and industrial heritage of the Guibei area in Hanyang, Wuhan.
5) research into nostalgic consumerism (particularly Occidental consumerism);
6) research into a nostalgic social movement in China known as the Hanfu movement (a movement of young people who wear pre-Qing Dynasty clothing) (with Qianqian Qin). Specifically, on this topic, recently, we have been involved with a project regarding infrastructures of memory. https://www.cassis.uni-bonn.de/en/ueber-cassis/prof.-maximilian-mayer-en/infrastructures/infrastructures-of-memory
Funded Research projects:
2023: I am currently involved in another large EU project called KHAS Consider. The project is also tied up with a series of academic exchanges between Universities in the EU and one University in China - HUST - Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The project aims to look at the sustainable management and conservation of industrial heritage globally.
In 2014, I was awarded a Sino-British Fellowship Trust and British Academy Award - (BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants SRG 2014 Round) £9,863.75. https://www.ncl.ac.uk/heritage/research/reconstructing-han-identities/
In 2012 I was an active participant in a very large EU F7 grant known as PUMAH - Planning, urban management and heritage; this grant saw staff exchanges between European and Chinese institutions. Overall the project was a complete success and these exchanges have now served as key spaces in the formation of new joint research projects and teaching opportunities.
Invites to be a Panel Chair and discussant:
31st of October 2023: invited by Professor Adam Sharr (Professor of Architecture, Newcastle University) to chair a panel session for the Newcastle Conference Architecture 101. The session took place on Saturday the 11th of November 2023.
4th of August 2023: invited by Professor Yonca Erkan (Professor of Built Heritage; University of Antwerp) to chair a talk by Dr Ning Lu (Lecturer at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Qingdao University of Technology; and to chair a panel of industrial heritage in China which followed the talk (The talk and the panel took place in the New World Building, Wuhan).
18th of February 2023: invited by Dr Philipp Demgenski (of Zhejiang University) to chair a panel session and be a discussant at the Association of Asian Studies, 2023 Annual Conference. The panel was entitled “The Heritage Question in Contemporary Chinese Cities” (Session Title: 1744) and was organised by Zheng Guan (Princeton University).
7th of September 2018: invited by Dr Yiwen Wang (of XJTLU) to chair a panel session entitled ‘Branding/sanitizing the past’ at Suzhou University of Science and Technology, (SUST) Suzhou, China. The 2nd International Conference on Heritage of China 2018, Suzhou, China.
Recent academic Presentations:
2024
6th of July 2024: ‘China’s link to Newcastle upon Tyne, UK’, talk given to the 21st International Conference on Teaching and Learning Chinese in Higher Education. This is the 2024 Annual International Conference of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society (BCLTS). Title of the conference: Critical Perspectives on International Chinese Education: Synergising Language, Culture, and Technology in the Era of Digital Intelligence.
2023
30th of August 2023: 'Industrial historical imaginaries and heritage in Hanyang, Wuhan'. Talk given to staff from Citic Design (an urban design company located within Wuhan) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, (HUST) in the New World Building, Wuhan.
28th of August 2023: 'Different theoretical interpretations of cultural heritage in the west'. Talk given to staff and students at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China.
2nd of August 2023: ‘China’s link to Newcastle upon Tyne, UK’ as part of the "Preserving the Maritime Cultural Heritage", UCMSR Summer Program. Xiamen University. Recorded Zoom lecture sent to Dr Han Jie of the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University.
7th of July 2023: ‘Hegemonic Han identities and alternative subjectivities: the contemporary Hanfu movement and broader national narratives of decline and rejuvenation’ – which is part of the panel ‘Building Narratives and Deconstructing Hegemony in Northeast Asian Memorymaking’ – which is part of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) “Communities and Change” Newcastle University, 3-7th of July 2023.
22nd of June 2023: ‘Chinese Migration to Newcastle’ The Politics of Remembrance: The Commemoration and Heritagization of Colonial Occupation in Contemporary China – a workshop organised by Professor John Pendlebury and Dr Yiwen Wang. School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Newcastle University.
21st of June 2023 – “Representing humiliation and collective remembering in China: colonial architecture on Gulangyu and the construction of an ‘exotic space’ for Chinese tourists” – The Politics of Remembrance: The Commemoration and Heritagization of Colonial Occupation in Contemporary China – a workshop organised by Professor John Pendlebury and Dr Yiwen Wang. School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Newcastle University.
11th of April 2023: “Narratives of Han Ethnic, Moral, and Behavioural Decline: The Contemporary Hanfu Movement in the cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan and Xi’an”; invited by Dr Valerie Pellatt to give a talk to the Scotland Chinese Association (SCA) in Edinburgh.
17th of February 2023:‘The uses of the past in Chang’an: selective remembering and the discourse of rejuvenation’; invited by Dr Marichela Sepe, to give a talk to the GU Design Network. https://gudesign.org/seminars/#seminars –
2022
20th of July, 2022: ‘The uses of the past in Chang’an: selective remembering and the discourse of rejuvenation’; Conference title: InterAsian networks and the making(s) of the first cities; Department of Asian Studies, Institute of Sinology; Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich); 20th to the 21st of July 2022
24th of June 2022: ‘Narratives of Han ethnic, moral, and behavioural decline: the contemporary Hanfu movement and discourses of authenticity’; Conference title: Understanding Authenticity in Cultural Heritage: China and Beyond, St Hugh's College; University of Oxford.
2021
27th of of May 2021: ‘Cultural nationalism, ontological (in)security and reflective nostalgia? the Hanfu movement and young adults in China’, Infrastructures of Memory Heritages and Diversity in Modern China Workshop; Research Group Infrastructures of China’s Modernity and Their Global Constitutive Effects” at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), University of Bonn.
16th of May 2021: ‘Reclaiming Han identities from the margins: the Hanfu movement and youth subculture in China’, CHINA FROM THE MARGINS: NEW NARRATIVES OF THE PAST AND PRESENT; Organized by the Department of China Studies Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Suzhou, 16th-17th April 2021
Research led teaching
Stage 3: Chinese Cultural history and urban development: With Ms Qianqian Qin and Prof Rose Gilroy, I now run a stage 3 AUP course which explores the cultural history of Chinese city making and planning. As well as examining ancient city planning, we also investigate in detail the contemporary status of the Chinese city and the social, cultural, economic and political processes that shape it.
Stage 2: Study visit: In 2019 with Ms Qianqian Qin, I ran an undergraduate fieldtrip to Beijing. During this fieldtrip we visited scholars, practitioners and town planners at Peking University, (Professor Bin Lu and Professor Pengjun Zhao), the Tsinghua Institute and the 798 art zone. We also visited the Forbidden City and the Yuanmingyuan Gardens along with other places.
Teaching awards, nominations and prizes
9th of March 2022 – I was nominated for a Teaching Education Award (TEA).The category for which I was nominated was ‘Outstanding Contribution to HASS faculty’.
12th of March 2020 – I was nominated for a Teaching Education Award (TEA). The category for which I was nominated was ‘Outstanding Contribution to Student Employability’.
14th of May 2013 – I was nominated for a Teaching Excellence Award (TEA). The category for which I was nominated was “Innovative Teaching Method of the year”.
15th of May 2012 – I was awarded a prize for ‘Innovation in postgraduate supervision/teaching’ by the School of Architecture, planning and landscape
Current PhD/MPhil Supervision: 7 students
Shawn Qiao - Aesthetic Response: Mu Xin and Chinese Literature in the Post Mao Era (with Dr Joe Lawson and Professor Jianfei Zhu).
Zhan Zhang - The politics of public space in China (with Professor Ali Madanipour).
Gobi Guo - UNESCO Notions of peace within World Heritage interpretation and the way these ideas are understood in China and Gulangyu (Xiamen). (with Professor Areti Galani and Dr Bruce Davenport).
Minghe Ma - Collective memory and heritage in Jing De Zheng - China's porcelain city (with Dr Dariusz Gafijczuk)
Paul Zhou - Chinese migrants in the EU. Documentary film practice (with Dr Alastair Cole and Dr Caleb Johnston)
Tiancheng Ren - Urban identities, migration and Shenzhen (with Professor Ali Madanipour).
Lu Bao - Spatial contest across Scales: a study of transportation nodes at Dalian and Taipei and multi-scalar spatial politics in Japan's colonial project in East Asia (1895-1945) (with Professor Jianfei Zhu).
Completed PhD's:
I have successfully supervised 9 candidates (in conjunction with other staff in APL, SELL and the University's Culture Lab) to completion.
Dr Mohanad Alfelali - The history, sociology and heritage of Mecca (with Dr Josep-Maria Garcia Fuentes and Dr John Kamara)
Dr Amelia Joicey - The history and sociology of the Northern Stage Theatre - DTC AHRC awards - AHRC Funded - (with Dr Rosalind Haslett and Dr Helen Freshwater).
Dr Asmarani (Rani) Februandari - Power and discrimination in a space: The role of cultural built heritage in identity construction of Chinese Indonesians - Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education - (with Prof. Pendlebury).
Dr Ang Gao - Reading Jiaoxing Village - PhD by Creative Film Practice - (with Dr Ian McDonald).
Dr Lu Wang - Facilities for ageing middle class subjects in China (with Prof. Rose Gilroy).
Dr Rorie Parsons - Social Practice theory and networks of cycling - ESRC Funded - (With Prof Vigar).
Dr Xi Chen - Colonial heritage on an island in Wenzhou - PhD by creative practice - (with Prof Chiles and Dr Beattie).
Dr Zhang Su - Feng Shui, urban design and planning (Self-funded). (with Prof Madanipour).
Dr Tom Brigden - The Richmond View: transatlantic landscapes (AHRC Funded) - 2014. (With Prof. Sharr).
Completed PhD's (where I made a short term contribution to their supervision. i.e. 6 months)
Dr Pattamon Selanon
Total teaching contribution
I am a module leader for 3 modules and a contributor on another 13 modules - see below.
Masters teaching: MSc in Town Planning
TCP8911: Master’s dissertation – 1 x 2-hour workshop (Contributor)
TCP8099: Master’s Dissertation – supervise approximately 4 students a year plus marking. (Contributor)
TCP8902: Reflexive practitioner module: contributor: 1 x 2-hour lecture on Deontological ethics. (Contributor)
TCP8942: Reflexive practitioner (Mplan) version. 1 x 2-hour lecture on Deontological ethics. (Contributor)
TCP7024: Conservation and the Historic City - 2 x Lectures (Contributor)
Undergraduate teaching/supervision
Level 3 Modules
TCP3099 - Planning undergraduate dissertation module - Have been a contributor to dissertation workshops (and sometimes supervision) (Contributor)
TCP3054 - Planning theory - Marxism, post-modernism, critical pragmatism etc - (contributor and sometimes module leader - was module leader for this course previously for many years) (Contributor)
APL3007 - Dissertation in Architecture and Urbanism - contributor to tutorials, crits and supervision (Contributor)
APL3004 - Chinese Cultural History and Urban Development - (Module leader).
Level 2 modules
TCP2028 - Understanding cities - Lecture on the Cultural City and seminar - (Contributor).
TCP 2027: Research skills – Contributor: 3 x 2-hour sessions (6 hours in total) (Contributor)
APL2007 - Creative practice and visual research skills module - (Contributor).
APL2001 - Theories of Alternative Practice module - Lectures on Marxism, anarchism, feminism, post-modernism, alternative professionalism(s) - (Module leader)
Level 1 modules
APL1003 - Planning Contexts - (Contributor)
APL1002 - Histories of the City - (Module Leader)
Past modules
HSC8007 - MSc Global Health in the Anthropocene - (Contributor)
TCP2035 - Study Visit - Within this course I ran a fieldtrip to Beijing with Ms. Qianqian Qin; this field trip ran for the first time at the end of March, 2019 - (Contributor)
TCP1025 - Social Worlds - Lectures on identity, class, sexuality, gender, race and ethnicity - (Contributor)
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Articles
- Law A, Qin Q. The Revival of 'Han' Clothing in China?. Bulletin of the Costume Society Scotland 2024, 64.
- Law A, Qin Q. The Hanfu movement in China: a study of the movement in Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi’an. Sine. The Publication of the Scotland-China Association 2024, Summer 2024(1), 12-21.
- Li Y, Liang J, Huang J, Shen H, Li X, Law A. Evaluating tourist perceptions of architectural heritage values at a World Heritage Site in South-East China: The case of Gulangyu Island. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 2024, 60, 127-140.
- Wang L, Gilroy R, Law A. Shifting elder care practices in Chinese middle-class families. Plos One 2023, 18(3), e0283533.
- Law A. Historical imaginaries, historic urban branding, and the local state in China: Rejuvenation discourse, manufactured heritage and simulacrascapes. Built Heritage 2023, 7, 1.
- Li Y, Du Y, Yang M, Liang J, Bai H, Li R, Law A. A review of the tools and techniques used in the digital preservation of architectural heritage within disaster cycles. Heritage Science 2023, 11, 199.
- Law A, Qin Q. Reflexive Han-Ness, Narratives of Moral Decline, Manchurian Subjects and “Mass” Societal Others: A Study of the Hanfu Movement in the Cities of Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi’an. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs 2022, 52(2), 230-255.
- Law A. Situating strategic or hybrid Confucianism(s): issues and problematics. Dialogues in Human Geography 2021, 11(2), 257-260.
- Li Y, Huang J, Law A. Research Frameworks, methodologies, and assessment methods concerning the adaptive reuse of architectural heritage: A Review. Built Heritage 2021, 5, 6.
- Li Y, Xie J, Gao X, Law A. A Method of selecting potential development regions based on GPS and social network models – from the perspective of tourist behavior. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 2021, 26(2), 183-199.
- Lyu Z, Tang J, Wu X, Law A. The Research of English Vernacular Architecture History since 16th Century to Mid 20th Century (in Chinese). The Architect 2019, (6), 64-76.
- Law A, Qin Q. Searching for economic and cosmopolitan roots: the historical discourse of “Hankou Merchant Port Nostalgia” in the central Chinese city of Wuhan 武汉. METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture 2018, 35(2), 173-195.
- Pendlebury J, Wang Y, Law A. Re-using 'uncomfortable heritage': The case of the 1933 Building, Shanghai. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2018, 24(3), 211-229.
- Law A, Veldpaus L. Colonial nostalgia, growth coalitions and urban planning in China. Urbanistica Informazioni 2017, 272(Special issue, part 4), 400-408.
- Li Y, Xiao L, Ye Y, Xu W, Law A. Understanding tourist space at a historic site through space syntax analysis: The case of Gulangyu, China. Tourism Management 2016, 52, 30-43.
- Li Y, Ye Y, Xiao L, Xu W, Law A, Wang D. Classifying Community Space at a Historic Tourism Site through Cognitive Mapping and GPS Tracking: The Case of Gulangyu, China. Urban Design International 2016, 22(3), 127-149.
- Brooks E, Law A, Huang LJ. A Comparative Study on Historic Building Regeneration Between the UK and China: A Perspective on Energy Efficiency. Urban Planning International 2014, 2(139), 29-35.
- Brooks E, Law A, Huang L-J. A comparative analysis of retrofitting historic buildings for energy efficiency in the UK and China . disP - The Planning Review 2014, 50(3), 66-75.
- Law A. Balancing Development and Heritage Scapes: Can New Kinds of Creative Industry Save the Lilongs of Shanghai?. Intertrade 2012, 11(371), 4-13.
- Law A. Weighty histories and the industrial city: New creative economic spaces in the production of alternative heritage and identity. Intertrade 2011, 8(356), 55-62.
- Ballantyne A, Law A. Genealogy of the Singaporean black-and-white house. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 2011, 32(3), 301-313.
- Law A. The problem of sustainability and the historic city. Municipal Engineer 2010, 163(3), 127-130.
- Grisola JM, Willis KG, Wymer C, Law A. Social engagement and regional theatre: patterns of theatre attendance. Cultural Trends 2010, 19(3), 225-244.
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Authored Books
- Law A. The uses of the past in China. 2026. In Preparation.
- Ballantyne A, Law A. Tudoresque: In Pursuit of the Ideal Home. London: Reaktion Books, 2011.
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Book Chapters
- Pendlebury J, Wang Y-W, Law A. Uncomfortable heritage. In: Saloul, I; Baillie, B, ed. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. 2025. In Press.
- Pendlebury J, Wang Y-W, Law A. Re-using ‘uncomfortable heritage’: the case of the 1933 building, Shanghai. In: Li, Y. González Martínez, P, ed. Re-creating Shanghai: Heritage Conservation and Urban Regeneration. Berlin: Springer, 2025. In Press.
- Law A, Qin Q. Hegemonic Han Identities and Alternative Subjectivities: The Contemporary Hanfu Movement as a Marginal Cross-generational Subculture. In: Emily Williams, Loredana Cesarino, ed. China from the Margins. New Narratives of the Past and Present. London: Routledge, 2025.
- Law A. Remembering and forgetting the Opium Wars: British colonial injustice, education, and heritage. In: Lixinski, L and Zhu, Y, ed. Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building. London: Routledge, 2024.
- Qin Q, Law A. The Case of the North Lake (Beihu) Ecological New Town in Jining, Shandong: Discourses of Class, Taste, Luxury Consumption and ‘Conduct’. In: Abdulai, RT; Azuah, KGB, ed. Sustainable Real Estate in the Developing World. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021, pp.83-114.
- Law A. The Role of History, Nostalgia and Heritage in the Construction and Indigenisation of State-led Political and Economic Identities in Contemporary China. In: Ludwig C; Walton L; Wang Y, ed. The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage. Amsterdam University Press: International Institute of Asian Studies in association with Amsterdam University Press, 2020, pp.215-238.
- Law A, Chen X. ‘Absent–Present’ Heritage: The Cultural Heritage of Dwelling on the Changjian (Yangtze) River. In: Hein C, ed. Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage. Berlin: Springer, Cham, 2020, pp.272-289.
- Law A. Discourse. In: Richardson, D; Castree, N; Goodchild, MF; Kobayashi, AL; Liu, W; Marston, R, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. New York: Association of American Geographers; Wiley, 2017.
- Sturzaker J, Law A. The rising Chinese middle class and the 'construction' of new countryside. In: Verdini G; Wang Y; Zhang X, ed. Urban China's Rural Fringe: Actors, Dimensions and Management Challenges. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2016, pp.33-60.
- Law A. Humiliation Heritage in China: Discourse, Affectual Governance, and Displaced Heritage at Tiananmen Square. In: Convery, I; Corsane, G; Davis, P, ed. Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma and Loss. Woodbridge, UK: The Boydell Press, 2014, pp.165-173.
- Law A. Postcolonial Shanghai: An Urban Discourse of Prosperity and Futurity. In: Rajagopalan, M; Desai, M, ed. Colonial Frames, Nationalist Histories: Imperial Legacies, Architecture, and Modernity. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012, pp.285-304.
- Ballantyne A, Law A. Tudoresque Vernacular and the self-reliant Englishman. In: Guillery, P, ed. Built From Below: British Architecture and the Vernacular. Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.123-144.
- Ballantyne A, Law A. Architecture: The Tudoresque Diaspora. In: String, TC, Bull, M, ed. Tudorism: Historical imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 2011, pp.155-181.
- Law A. English Townscape as Cultural and Symbolic capital. In: Ballantyne, A, ed. Architectures: Modernism and After. Malden, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004, pp.202-226.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Law A. The role of history, nostalgia and heritage in the construction of entrepreneurial Chinese Cities. In: Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries, as part of the Association of Asian Studies. 2017, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.
- Law A. Searching for “New Modernities” and constructing Chinese modern identities: Using history and heritage in the indigenization of global capitalist modernity in Chinese cities. In: Heritage of China International Symposium. 2016, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Suzhou.
- Law A. Searching for “deep modernities” in the construction of modern Chinese identities: using history and heritage in the indigenisation of global capitalist modernity in Chinese cities’. In: The 2016 International Symposium on Reclaiming Identity and (Re)Materializing Pasts: Approaches to Heritage Conservation in China. 2016, Xi'an-Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou, China.
- Law A. Balancing commercial and heritage scapes: Atmosphere, vitality and sterility in the urban conservation spaces of Shanghai. In: AESOP 26th Annual Congress. 2012, Ankara, Turkey.
- Law A. Searching for Entrepreneurial and Economic Legacies in the 'Golden Age' of the Tang Dynasty. In: International Conference on China Urban Development. 2010, The University of Hong Kong.
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Online Publications
- Law A. How do we interpret the history, collective memory and uses of old buildings? The problem of urban branding and historic urban branding?. Wenhui Xinmin United Press Group, 2018. Available at: https://www.shine.cn/opinion/foreign-views/1806106094/.
- Law A. Kite Zhang's Kites. 2016. Available at: http://www.thecrackmagazine.com/view-editorial/3818.
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Report
- Law A. The House of Commons workshop approach. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2015.
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Reviews
- Law A. Memories of Tiananmen. Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989–2019. Francis L. F. Lee & Joseph M. Chan, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021, 360pp. Europe-Asia Studies 2023, 75(7), 1236-1238.
- Law A. Heritage Politics in China: The Power of the Past, by Yujie Zhu and Christina Maags [Book review]. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2021, 27(4), 423-425.
- Law A. Carrico, Kevin: The Great Han. Race, Nationalism, and Tradition in China Today. Oakland: University of California Press. Anthropos 2019, 114(2), 573-574.
- Law A. Brumann, Christoph & David Berliner (eds). (2016) World Heritage on the ground: ethnographic perspectives. viii, 327 pp., illus., bibliogrs. London, New York: Berghahn Books. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2018, 24(1), 201-202.
- Law A. Andrew Law on Chinese Ecologies - China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities by Austin Williams London: Bloomsbury, 2017 220pp. Price £17.99 (pb). Architectural Research Quarterly 2018, 21(3), 281-283.
- Law A. Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China, by Jie Yang. ILR Press, Ithaca, NY, 2015. British Journal of Industrial Relations 2016, 54(3), 673-675.
- Law A. The lives of Chinese objects, Buddhism, imperialism and display, by Louise Tythacott. Berghahn Books, 2011 [Book review]. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2015, 21(3), 306-308.
- Law A. Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China edited by Xi Chen (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011). Journal of International Development 2014, 26(2), 297-298.
- Law A. Brace, C. John-Putra, A., 'Process, Landscape and Text', Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2010. Landscape Research 2013, 38(1), 154-156.
- Law A. Rising Shanghai: state power and local transformations in a global megacity, edited by Xiangming Chen with Zhenhua Zhou, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2009 [Book review]. Planning Perspectives 2011, 26(2), 325-327.
- Law A. Theme Park, London: Reaktion books , Lukas, S.A (2008) [book review]. Landscape Research 2010, 35(1), 139-141.
- Law A. Loukaki, A, (2008) Living Ruins, Value Conflicts, (within the Heritage, Culture and Identity series), Aldershot: Ashgate. European Spatial Research and Policy 2009, 16(1), 159-161.
- Law A. Constructing a Sense of Place: Architecture andthe Zionist Discourse. Yacobi, Haim (ed.). Aldershot,Ashgate 2004. Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography 2005, 87(3), 241-242.
- Law A. The City Cultures Reader edited by Malcolm Miles,Tim Hall and Iain Borden. London: Routledge, 2000. Area 2002, 34(2), 221-222.
- Law A. Out of place. Englishness, empire, and the locations of identity (Book review). Progress in Human Geography 2000, 24(4), 673-674.