Introduction: The circulation of maps, money and cultural media
(2024)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2024). Introduction: The circulation of maps, money and cultural media. In J. Harrison-Hall (Ed.), China’s 1800s: Material and Visual Culture (122-123). The British Museum
PROF Shane McCausland's Outputs (17)
Catalogue entries: Zhao Mengfu, 'River Village, Fishermen's Joy'; Chen Ruyan, 'Mountains of the Immortals'; Zhao Yong, 'Fishermen-Hermits in Stream and Mountain' (2024)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2024). Catalogue entries: Zhao Mengfu, 'River Village, Fishermen's Joy'; Chen Ruyan, 'Mountains of the Immortals'; Zhao Yong, 'Fishermen-Hermits in Stream and Mountain'. In C. V. Spee (Ed.), China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. Cleveland Museum of Art
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/10.1017/9781316337424.045An 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.
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/10.4324/9781315165172-43Understanding 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.
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.399Paper 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.ch5In 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.
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 PressThis 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.
"To achieve no closer likeness": Wang Zhenpeng and his Boya Playing the Qin (2012)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2012). "To achieve no closer likeness": Wang Zhenpeng and his Boya Playing the Qin. In Hua guan [Views of painting]. Peking University Press
Copying and Transmitting, Knowledge and Nonsense: From the Great Encyclopedia to A Book from the Sky (2012)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2012). Copying and Transmitting, Knowledge and Nonsense: From the Great Encyclopedia to A Book from the Sky. In N. Pearce, & J. Steuber (Eds.), Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China. University Press of Florida
Visual Narratology in China and Japan around 1600 - a comparative study (2012)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2012). Visual Narratology in China and Japan around 1600 - a comparative study. In A. Green (Ed.), Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives (41-59). Hong Kong University Press
Chen Hongshou and His Workshop (2011)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2011). Chen Hongshou and His Workshop. In D. C.-Y. Ching, A. Murck, J. Silbergeld, & J. G. Smith (Eds.), Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong (165-184). Princeton University Press
Cong Jiangxi dao Riben: Yuandai yinyi huajia Luo Zhichuan ji qi "Xuejiang tu" 从江西到日本:元代隐逸画家罗稚川及其《雪江图》 [From Jiangxi to Japan: the Yuan recluse-painter Luo Zhichuan and his Snowy River] (2010)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2010). Cong Jiangxi dao Riben: Yuandai yinyi huajia Luo Zhichuan ji qi "Xuejiang tu" 从江西到日本:元代隐逸画家罗稚川及其《雪江图》 [From Jiangxi to Japan: the Yuan recluse-painter Luo Zhichuan and his Snowy River]. In .. Shanghai Museum (Ed.), Qiannian danqing: xudu Zhong-Ri cang Tang Song Yuan huihua zhenpin 《千年丹青——续读中日藏唐宋元绘画珍品》 [Masterpieces of ancient Chinese paintings: Paintings from the Tang to the Yuan dynasty in Japanese and Chinese collections] (275-288). Peking University Press
Empires at Odds: the Qianlong Emperor and Lord Macartney’s British Mission (2009)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2009). Empires at Odds: the Qianlong Emperor and Lord Macartney’s British Mission. In J. McCormack (Ed.), Thomas Davis Lectures 2008: China and the Irish (14-25). New Island
The Guan-Ge controversy in light of Song-Yuan aesthetics and connoisseurship (2004)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2004). The Guan-Ge controversy in light of Song-Yuan aesthetics and connoisseurship. In S. Pierson (Ed.), Song Ceramics: Art History, Archaeology and Technology (29-47). Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London
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