Re-using ‘uncomfortable heritage’: the case of the 1933 building, Shanghai

Pendlebury, John; Wang, Yiwen; Law, Andrew

doi:10.1080/13527258.2017.1362580

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“…As such, adaptive heritage reuse is an important strategy for the preservation of heritage architecture [3], and the process of adaptive heritage reuse transforms heritage buildings into usable locations, providing the additional benefit of achieving sustainable regeneration [4]. Adaptive heritage reuse is a widespread method to preserve the value of heritage, including industrial, religious, public, residential, military, and commercial heritage sites [5]; attract private funds; and reduce the financial burden on governments [6,7].…”

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The Attractiveness of Adaptive Heritage Reuse: A Theoretical Framework

2020

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Adaptive heritage reuse is a useful method to bring new meaning into a culture, manage heritage sites, and promote tourism development. However, it is not always successful, and there is no theoretical framework to understand its attractiveness and value. This study aimed at developing such a theoretical framework based on the analysis of nine cases of adaptive heritage reuse in Taiwan. The probe question technique of qualitative interview was used to assess the attraction framework. A total of 90 respondents were interviewed based on constant comparative analysis with the sampling strategy of theoretical saturation. The results illustrate the heritage and activities of the reuse environments, including natural and regional environments. These environments produce recreational values, including self-growth, health benefits, and social benefits. As promoting activities is an important attraction for tourists in the heritage reuse environment, the natural environment can be used to plan and design heritage outdoor activities. Finally, the regional environment can be an important basis for assessing the feasibility of adaptive heritage reuse, including historical streets, surrounding tourist attractions, and high transportation accessibility. This theoretical framework can be used to achieve sustainable management of heritage sites.

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“…It has the functions of explaining history and recording civilization. This negotiation process should not be regarded as ignoring and suppressing the original history, nor should it establish new uses to weaken and cover up the past, or deliberately change the expression of heritage meaning (Pendlebury, Wang, and Law 2017). On the contrary, how to fully present the significance of the military heritage in the process of reuse, and integrate the requirements of contemporary creative industries and office space were paid more attention, so as to that the history of the heritage itself in the new urban environment was not only commemorated, but also on the basis of ensuring the safety and integrity of cultural relics.…”

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Conservation and adaptive reuse of modern military industrial heritage: a case study on the former site of Jinling Arsenal in Nanjing, China

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Chun

Xiong

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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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To strengthen its power and resist aggression, the Qing-dynasty government of China began building military-industrial bases after the Opium Wars and to learn advanced Western science and technology. Through nearly 150 years' development, the former site of Jinling Arsenal has become the largest and most representative architectural group of modern military industrial heritage buildings in China. This paper analyzes the history and heritage characteristics of the site. It is found that under the exchanges and conflicts between Chinese and Western civilizations, the military architectural heritages reflect remarkable characteristics of pioneering and integration of Chinese and Western architectural styles, spatial forms and construction technologies, as well as the intrinsic traits of mixing and transition of structure, based on guiding ideology of "Chinese essence and Western utility". These heritages not only show the influence and restriction of political goal on construction technologies, but also become the identity representation of the country, city and proprietors, thus having unique meaning and value.In addition, the corresponding methods and strategies, repair techniques and existing problems are discussed through the critical analysis of the conservation and adaptive reuse of typical heritage buildings, so as to provide basis and beneficial reference for related research and practice.

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“…Various strands of thought emerged at the end of the century, providing theoretical and analytical framing for the management of sites associated with human death and suffering (Hartmann 2014;Ashworth and Isaac 2015). Studies in the heritage field use various terms to describe such sites, including 'heritage that hurt', 'heritage of atrocity', 'dissonant heritage', 'difficult heritage', 'negative heritage' and 'uncomfortable heritage' (Tunbridge and Ashworth 1996;Uzzell and Ballantyne 1998;Meskell 2002;Logan and Reeves 2009;Merrill and Schmidt 2011;Macdonald 2015;Pendlebury et al 2018). Conversely, tourism studies commonly couched the fascination with these sites as 'dark tourism' (Stone 2006;Lennon and Foley 2010) or use the word 'thana-tourism' (Seaton 1996), which questions the fascination, motivation and experience of tourists to visit battlefields or sites of death.…”

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Issues in conserving ‘orphan heritage’ in Asia: WWII battlefield conservation in Hong Kong and Malaysia

Wang

DiMeolo

2021

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Wars and conflict have existed since the beginning of time. Most battlefield conservation work is done for battlefields that lie in the borders of the nations that were involved, thus fostering citizens’ personal ties with the site and their national identities. However, some areas of the world suffer from conservation neglect because of the distance and separation between the battlefield’s location and the country to which it is relevant, thus creating a dislocated appreciation of heritage described by Price (J Confl Archaeol 1:181–196, 2005) as ‘orphan heritage’. This paper questions the extent to which post-colonial nations are willing to protect and conserve World War II battlefields on their soil. It examines two battlefields in Asia—the Gin Drinkers’ Line in Hong Kong, China, and the Green Ridge battlefield in Kampar, Malaysia—that have been the subject of campaigns to recognise their transnational heritage value. Both battles involved multinational Allied forces led by the British against Japanese troops. A combination of political and economic factors has influenced how the two battlefields are understood and appreciated by citizens and local governments in the host nations. The paper delineates how these two Asian battlegrounds, which are relatively unknown to the general public, have been brought to the public’s attention and by whom as well as how the local governments have handled the demand to safeguard the battlefields. We argue that the global nature of WWII makes its commemoration geographically challenging and politically contentious. The WWII battlefields in Asia attest to the historical authenticity of past conflicts and thus should be conserved as neutrally as possible. The successful protection of battlefields in Malaysia and Hong Kong thus far can be largely attributed to grassroots initiatives, pressure from stakeholder countries, such as the UK, and academic research whereby the significance of the battleground is made known to people in Hong Kong and Malaysia. With public support, responsible government leadership and a shared understanding of their importance as transnational heritage, WWII battlefields can help calm bitter resentment and promote reconciliation.

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Re-using ‘uncomfortable heritage’: the case of the 1933 building, Shanghai

Abstract: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence Newcastle University ePrints-eprint.ncl.ac.uk

Cited by 43 publications

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The Attractiveness of Adaptive Heritage Reuse: A Theoretical Framework

The Attractiveness of Adaptive Heritage Reuse: A Theoretical Framework

Conservation and adaptive reuse of modern military industrial heritage: a case study on the former site of Jinling Arsenal in Nanjing, China

Issues in conserving ‘orphan heritage’ in Asia: WWII battlefield conservation in Hong Kong and Malaysia

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