Mme Chensi Shen

Publications

Journals
(2024) Maria Gravari-Barbas; Sandra Guinand; Yue Lu; Chensi Shen, Narrating dissonant heritage. The former international concessions in Tianjin museums, between patriotism and nostalgia, the special issue of Built Heritage, 8(1), 47.
(2023) Chensi Shen, Crossing Borders for Love: The Trend of Destination Weddings Among China's Young Couples. Via. Tourism Review, (24).
(2023) Chensi Shen, Romantic Rendez-vous: The Allure of Santorini and the Aegean Sea in Chinese Travel Culture. Via. Tourism Review, (24).
(2023) Chensi Shen, “Influencers Crush Wukang Road”: Creating Wanghong Landscapes in the Former French Concession in Shanghai, Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 8, no. 1, 28 March 2023, https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2023/03/wukang-road/
(2022) Xuerui Wang, Chensi Shen, Contemporary Public Art Interventions in Historic Conservation Districts: The Example of Redevelopment of Shanghai's Duolun Road Historic District, Urban Architecture, May 2022 (in Chinese).

Book chapters
(2025) Chensi Shen, Wanghong gentrification in a hybrid context: A Study of the Former concessions in Tianjin, Elgar Handbook gentrification & Tourism, book chapter, in press.
(2024) Chensi Shen, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Exploring Intersectoral Peripheralities: Prospects for the Heritage and Tourism, Development of an Ethnic Suburban Architecture (Chinagora, Paris), Cultural Heritage on the Urban Peripheries, book chapter, Routledge - Taylor and Francis
(2023) Chensi Shen, Regional Criticism: A Passive Resistance to Planetary Urbanization. In World Congress of Architects (pp. 197-205). Cham: Springer International Publishing.(2023) Yue Lu, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Chensi Shen,Parks in the Concessions of Tianiin: History, Hybridization, and Consumption, International Journal -Pacific heritage Studies: Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Korea National University of Heritage, K-Heritage International Center, December 31,2023, ISSN: 3058-4086
(2023) Chensi Shen, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Yue Lu, The Changing Heritage Landscape Influenced by Wanghong Urbanism:Former Concessions as internet-Popular Destinations, International Journal -Pacific heritage Studies: Sustainable Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Korea National University of Heritage, K-Heritage International Center, December 31,2023, ISSN: 3058-4086
(2023) Chensi Shen, Regional Criticism: A Passive Resistance to Planetary Urbanization. In World Congress of Architects (pp. 197-205). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Communications
(2024) Chensi Shen, Can cultural creative industries become a sustainable development tool for heritage sites? A case study of Wudadao, Tianjin, China, 28th UNESCO UNITWIN Conference 2024: World Heritage as Resilience for Tourism Recovery, Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai Campus), Zhuhai, China, 26 - 30 November, 2024
(2024) Maria Gravari-Barbas, Chensi Shen，Yue Lu, Immersive Imaginations: Exploring Tianjin Historic Concessions with “Time travelling” experiences. Conference Imagining Tourists & Tourism, Paris, June 2024. 
Presentation.
(2024) Chensi Shen, The digital transformation of postcolonial heritage: Tianjin Wudadao as wanghong tourism destination, 1st INTOCUS International Conference, Athens Harokopio University of Athens, March 8, 2024, Presentation & Proceedings
(2023) Chensi Shen, Beatriz Martínez Parra, The development of the tourism industry in ethnic neighborhoods. Origins, effects, and stakeholders. Cultural Heritage in the context of Migrations and Global Mobilities, “Get Together” Una Europa, December 1st, 2023. Presentation.
(2023) Chensi Shen, The Changing Heritage Landscape Influenced by WangHong Urbanism - Former concessions as internet popular destination, 2023 KNUCH - UNESCO Chair Webinar Special session: Heritage Narrative in Former Concessions in Tianjin (China), November 27th, 2023. Presentation.
(2023) Chensi Shen, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sandra Guinand, Yue Lu, Vendre l'exotisme à Wudadao, ancienne concession internationale de Tianjin, Les recherches en patrimoine à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne : Approches, concepts, disciplines, Paris, November 13-14th. Presentation. (In French)
(2023) Chensi Shen, Wanghong Cities as Tourism Destinations in China: Political analysis, International Symposium for Young Researchers in Tourism 7th Edition: Innovation, Tourism, Territories: A Political Analysis, the City Hall of Paris, September 2023, Presentation
(2023) Chensi Shen, Re-imagining Chinatowns in Paris Peripheries, Seminar of Cultural heritage and local population involvement in (urban) peripheries, Edinburgh, March 2023, Presentation.
(2023) Chensi Shen, Maria Gravari-Barbas, Re-imagining the Paris confluence with Chinagora: the heterogeneous heritage at the urban periphery, International Conference of Cultural Heritage at the Urban and Metropolitan Peripheries, June 2023, Presentation.
(2023) Chensi Shen, Regional Criticism: A Passive Resistance to Planetary Urbanization, UIA World Congress of Architects, Copenhagen, July 2023, Presentation (fellowship of the conference).
(2023) Chensi Shen, Multidimensional sustainable heritage management and tourism development: the case of Bordeaux, France, International Landscape Architecture Frontiers Forum and International Day of Monuments and Sites Young Professionals Forum on Landscape Architecture Heritage Conservation, Presentation.
(2022) Chensi Shen, Lixue Zhang, Hang Xu, Tianzhu Chu, A Research Framework on Gender and Urbanization in the Context of New South-South Cooperation: An Exploration of Sylvia Chant's Feminism Urban Research and Practices, Theory and Practice: Gender Perspectives on International Development Cooperation Conference 2022, online, Main Session presentation.
(2022) Chensi Shen, Chunyan Zhang and Zhiwei Huang, The Global Metropolis As A Buzzword: Rethinking The Theoretical Boundaries Of The Global City, 5th World Planning Schools Congress and 16th Asian Planning Schools Association Congress, Bali, August 2022, presentation.
(2020) Chensi Shen, Zhaodong LIU, Shuo GAO, Elite Education Participates in the Process of Ecological Enclave: Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China, International Seminar on Urban Form ISUF, conference proceedings.

Round Tables / Interviews
(2024) The immersive approach in introducing heritage sites: French studies, Tianjin Arts Broadcasting, Tianjin, China
(2023) Tianjin, global transfers and local appropriations, as part of the China Rendezvous series , Round Table, Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/fr/agenda/colloque-conference-debat/…- appropriations-locales.
(2022) Urban Digital Spectacle Seminar, Round table session, London.

Conferences Organizations
(2023) International Symposium for Young Researchers in Tourism 7th Edition: Innovation, Tourism, Territories: A Political Analysis, organizing committee, supported by UNESCO Chair of “Culture, Tourism, Development”, University Paris Pantheon Sorbonne, Geography Doctor School of Paris and the city of Paris.
(2023) International Conference of Cultural Heritage at the Urban and Metropolitan Peripheries, organizing committee, supported by UNA Europa, University Paris Pantheon Sorbonne and University Complutense Madrid.
(2023) Seminar series of Heritage in France, organizing committee, supported by Tianjin University and Sino-French Center of Heritage and Urban Studies.
(2022) International Seminar of Heritage enhancement and urban regeneration, organizing committee, supported by Sino-French Center of Heritage and Urban Studies and French Ambassy in China.
(2022) Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei Historical and Cultural City Preservation Forum, organizing committee, supported by Tianjin University and Beijing Historical and Cultural City Protection Committee.
(2022) Urban Digital Spectacle Seminar, organizing committee, supported by SEED (School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester).
(2022) "Landscape Architecture and Frontier Intersection" Youth Forum and Doctoral Student Academic Forum, organizing committee, Tianjin University.
(2021) Research Seminar of Sino-French Center of Heritage and Urban Studies, organizing committee, Supported by Tianjin University and French Ambassy in China.
(2019) Le Corbusier and Modern Chinese Architecture, Academic Forum, organizing committee, Tianjin University.
(2015) Asia-Pacific Sustainable Energy Development Forum, organizing committee, Tianjin University.
Workshops
(2023) Workshop ChinArchi in Rions, Bordeaux, organizing committee, Tianjin University, Val-de-Seine School of Architecture, Versaille School of Architecture and Landscape and Mairie of Rions, 4-day-workshop ofheritage and territory analyze.
(2021)"Enver D é cor" Sino-French workshop, organizing committee, Tianjin University & Val-de-Seine School of Architecture, 5-day-workshop with interviewing architects in China and France, with analyzing their work.
(2020) Sino-French Workshop “Landscape, Architecture, Heritage, Art”, organizing committee, Tianjin University & National School of Architecture and Landscape of Bordeaux, 5-day-workshop on transformation of urban periphery area in Tianjin, China.

Research Projects
(2024) Tales from Chongqing Street”, Creative businesses and social change in the Wudadao district, Tianjin, Program Cai Yuanpei – Tremplin, French Ambassy in China, 2024.
(2024) The history of Heritagization and Touristification of post-colonial heritage: Tianjin Wudadao,
Responsible researcher, 2024 KNUCH UNESCO Chair Research Grant.
(2023) The Changing Heritage Landscape Influenced by WangHong Urbanism: Former Concessions as Internet-popular Destinations, responsible researcher, supported by 2023 KNUCH UNESCO Chair Research Grant.
(2024) The Immersive Experience in the Museums of the Former Concessions in Tianjin, participant, supported by 2024 KNUCH UNESCO Chair Research Grant. 
(2024) Part 2, The Parks of the Former Concessions in Tianjin: History, Hybridation and Consumption,
Participant, supported by 2023 KNUCH UNESCO Chair Research Grant.
(2023) The Parks of the Former Concessions in Tianjin: History, Hybridation and Consumption,
Participant, supported by 2023 KNUCH UNESCO Chair Research Grant.
(2023) The Museums of the Former Concessions in Tianjin, participated, supported by 2023 KNUCH UNESCO Chair Research Grant.
(2021) Research of Social Housing in France, supported by MAD architects, responsible researcher, reported to China Ministry of Housing and Construction.