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PROF Shane McCausland's Outputs (9)

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)
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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)
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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)
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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).