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Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966 (2025)
Thesis
Gipson, F. M. Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines photographs, nianhua posters, ink paintings and oil paintings of Mao Zedong produced up to 1966 to interrogate each medium’s ideological functions, reconsider their position within the wider lineage of traditional Chinese art con... Read More about Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966.

Personal Commemoration and Collective Enactment: Performing Literati Identity through Autobiographical Landscape in 19th-century China (2024)
Thesis
Chang, J. C.-C. Personal Commemoration and Collective Enactment: Performing Literati Identity through Autobiographical Landscape in 19th-century China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation distinguishes a new genre of autobiographical materials under the rubric of landscape, in which early 19th-century Chinese intellectuals performed the ideal male selfhood through intertextual discourse. I term these works as “autobi... Read More about Personal Commemoration and Collective Enactment: Performing Literati Identity through Autobiographical Landscape in 19th-century China.

Ogyen Choling in Bhutan: an Interpretation of the Temple and its Art (2023)
Thesis
Filsnoël, M. Ogyen Choling in Bhutan: an Interpretation of the Temple and its Art. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis contains a detailed interpretation of the significance and the importance of the religious site at Ogyen Choling (o rgyan chos gling) - which was the seat, in central Bhutan, of the treasure revealer (gter ston) of the Nyingma tradition o... Read More about Ogyen Choling in Bhutan: an Interpretation of the Temple and its Art.

Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s (2022)
Thesis
Wong, Y. H. Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis defines and deconstructs what the author calls the “Chao Shao-an Phenomenon”, and analyses how Chao’s paintings have been disseminated and represented by himself and his followers in different regions in the Asia-Pacific since the mid-20t... Read More about Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s.

Early Silk Road Photography: An Analysis of Dr. Maynard Owen Williams’ Photographs taken during the Citroën-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition (1931-1932) (2022)
Thesis
Nolan, M. S. S. M. Early Silk Road Photography: An Analysis of Dr. Maynard Owen Williams’ Photographs taken during the Citroën-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition (1931-1932). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis provides the first overview of the genre of Early Silk Road Photography and the first in-depth study of a key figure who contributed to it, Maynard Owen Williams. It analyses Williams’ photographs taken during the Citroën-Haardt Trans-Asi... Read More about Early Silk Road Photography: An Analysis of Dr. Maynard Owen Williams’ Photographs taken during the Citroën-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition (1931-1932).

Hong Ling: A Retrospective (2016)
Book
McCausland, S., Liang, T. S., & Redfern, M. (2016). S. McCausland, & T. S. Liang (Eds.). Hong Ling: A Retrospective. Soka Art

Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition of some 56 works, including early figural works and nudes as well as 'conceptual landscapes', by the contemporary Chinese artist Hong Ling (b. 1955), mounted at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London, fr... Read More about Hong Ling: A Retrospective.

丁乙 : 何所示 / Ding Yi: What's Left to Appear (2015)
Book
McCausland, S. (Ed.). (2015). 丁乙 : 何所示 / Ding Yi: What's Left to Appear. Shanghai shuhua chubanshe

Catalogue of a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by the contemporary abstract artist Ding Yi (b. 1962) curated by Shane McCausland and mounted at the Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, from 6th June to 26th July 2015.

Exemplary Complicity: The Pictorial Lives of Han Court Beauties in Two Narrative Handscrolls of Mid-Ming Suzhou (2014)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2014). Exemplary Complicity: The Pictorial Lives of Han Court Beauties in Two Narrative Handscrolls of Mid-Ming Suzhou. In S. McCausland, & Y. Hwang (Eds.), On Telling Images of China: Essays in Narrative Painting and Visual Culture (89-116). Hong Kong University Press

This study explores You Qiu’s visual narration in the handscroll format via two
paintings in the Shanghai Museum, Lady Zhaojun Leaves China (Zhaojun chusai
tu) of 1554 and Spring Morning in the Han Palace (Hangong chunxiao tu) of 1568.
The first s... Read More about Exemplary Complicity: The Pictorial Lives of Han Court Beauties in Two Narrative Handscrolls of Mid-Ming Suzhou.

Connoisseurship (2003)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2003). Connoisseurship. In S. Pierson, & S. McCausland (Eds.), Song Ceramics: Objects of Admiration (15-18). Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

Editor’s preface; (Ed.) Text and translation of Zhang Hua’s Poem, “Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies” (“Nüshi zhen”); “Like the gossamer threads of spring silkworms”: Gu Kaizhi in the Yuan renaissance; (Tr.) Wang Yao-t’ing, Beyond the Admonitions scroll: a study of the mounting, seals and calligraphy; (Tr.) Yin Ji’nan, Late Ming collectors and connoisseurs, and the making of the modern concept of “Gu Kaizhi”; Chronology of the Admonitions Scroll in the British Museum (2003)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2003). Editor’s preface; (Ed.) Text and translation of Zhang Hua’s Poem, “Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies” (“Nüshi zhen”); “Like the gossamer threads of spring silkworms”: Gu Kaizhi in the Yuan renaissance; (Tr.) Wang Yao-t’ing, Beyond the Admonitions scroll: a study of the mounting, seals and calligraphy; (Tr.) Yin Ji’nan, Late Ming collectors and connoisseurs, and the making of the modern concept of “Gu Kaizhi”; Chronology of the Admonitions Scroll in the British Museum. In S. McCausland (Ed.), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll. British Museum Press

The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies picture-scroll by Hironobu Kohara (2001)
Book
Kohara, H. (2001). S. McCausland (Ed.). The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies picture-scroll by Hironobu Kohara. School of Oriental and African Studies

An edited translation of Kohara Hironobu’s 2000 revision of his study, ‘Joshi shin zukan’ 〈女史箴図巻〉, about the painting attributed to Gu Kaizhi (c. 344-c. 406) in the British Museum, originally published Kokka 《国華》 nos 908 (Nov 1967), 17-31... Read More about The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies picture-scroll by Hironobu Kohara.