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PROF Shane McCausland's Outputs (60)

China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots (2025)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (in press). China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 88,

The Sonia Lightfoot Memorial Lecture given by Shane McCausland on Tuesday 13 February 2024 to the Oriental Ceramics Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
A qualitative, case-based outline study toward a critical framework for understandi... Read More about China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots.

‘Fangtan: Ma Xiaohong: Women nengfou dadao yu Yuandai wenhua xiang pibei de shijue suyang’ 访谈: 马啸鸿：我们能否达到与元代文化相匹配的视觉素养 (Interview with Shane McCausland, ‘Can we achieve visual literacy that matches the culture of the Yuan dynasty?) (2024)
Digital Artefact
McCausland, S. ‘Fangtan: Ma Xiaohong: Women nengfou dadao yu Yuandai wenhua xiang pibei de shijue suyang’ 访谈: 马啸鸿：我们能否达到与元代文化相匹配的视觉素养 (Interview with Shane McCausland, ‘Can we achieve visual literacy that matches the culture of the Yuan dynasty?)

'Yilong: Zhongguo de xiandaizhuyi yu modai huangdi liuwang chaoting de yishu'〈龙移：中国的现代主义与末代皇帝流亡朝廷的艺术〉 (simplified Chinese translation of 'The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism in China and Art at the Last Emperor’s Court-in-Exile', trans. Lai Xingrui) (2024)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (2024). 'Yilong: Zhongguo de xiandaizhuyi yu modai huangdi liuwang chaoting de yishu'〈龙移：中国的现代主义与末代皇帝流亡朝廷的艺术〉 (simplified Chinese translation of 'The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism in China and Art at the Last Emperor’s Court-in-Exile', trans. Lai Xingrui). Meishu daguan, 2024(3), 12-28

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.

Wu Changshi (吳昌碩 1844–1927) (2023)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2023). Wu Changshi (吳昌碩 1844–1927). In J. Lovell, & J. Harrison-Hall (Eds.), Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives - From Empire to Republic, 1796-1912. Thames and Hudson

Visual Sources (2023)
Book Chapter
Blair, S., & McCausland, S. (2023). Visual Sources. In M. Biran, & H. Kim (Eds.), Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire (1349-1398). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316337424.045

An integrated essay, co-authored with Sheila Blair, on visual sources for all the regions of the Mongol empire. This chapter provides an overview of the copious material production that occurred during the centuries when the Mongols dominated much of... Read More about Visual Sources.

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.

The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire (2022)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2022). The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire. In T. May, & M. Hope (Eds.), The Mongol World (534-559). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315165172-43

Understanding Yuan art and culture is a function of our contested present. Post-Yuan, late-imperial claims to Chinese cultural exceptionalism still pertain and are woven into the party-state’s sometimes rancorous claims to power and legitimacy. Yuan... Read More about The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire.

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).

The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism in China and Art at the Last Emperor’s Court-in-exile (2020)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (2020). The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism in China and Art at the Last Emperor’s Court-in-exile. Archives of Asian Art, 70(1), 51-83. https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-8124979

After his expulsion from the Forbidden City in 1924, China's “last emperor,” Henry Puyi 溥儀 (1906–1967), settled in Tianjin, where he later presented parting gifts to his former English tutor, Reginald F. Johnston [Zhuang Shidun] 莊士敦 (1874–1938),... Read More about The Flight of the Dragon: Modernism in China and Art at the Last Emperor’s Court-in-exile.

Intermediary Moments: Framing and Scrolling Devices Across Painting, Print and Film in Chinese Visual Narratives (2019)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2019). Intermediary Moments: Framing and Scrolling Devices Across Painting, Print and Film in Chinese Visual Narratives. In E. Wagner-Durand, B. Fath, & A. Heinemann (Eds.), Image – Narration – Context: Visual Narration in Cultures and Societies of the Old World (157-175). Propylaeum. https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.399

Paper given at a conference, Bild. Erzählung. Kontext. Visuelle Narration in Kulturen und Gesellschaften der Alten Welt (Image. Narrative. Context. Visual Narration in Cultures and Societies of the Old World), held at Freiburg Institute for Advanced... Read More about Intermediary Moments: Framing and Scrolling Devices Across Painting, Print and Film in Chinese Visual Narratives.

Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror (2016)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2016). Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror. In M. J. Powers, & K. R. Tsiang (Eds.), A Companion to Chinese Art (115-135). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885215.ch5

In recent years the discipline of the History of Art has witnessed attempts to devise theories that can illuminate artistic practices on a global scale. As one of a few traditions with a long history of self-reflexive writing on theory and practice,... Read More about Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror.