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Authored Books

McCausland, Shane (2024) Menggu shiji: Yuandai Zhongguo de shijue wenhua 《蒙古世纪：元代中国的视觉文化（1271—1368）》 (The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368 ), translated by Lai Xingrui. Beijing: SNC Publishing. (Kaifang de yishushi (Open Art History))

McCausland, Shane (2024) Menggu shiji: Yuandai Zhongguo de shijue wenhua 蒙古世纪：元代中国的视觉文化（1271—1368）. Beijing: Sanlian shudian. (Kaifang de yishushi (Open Art History))

McCausland, Shane (2023) The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll. London: Reaktion Books.

McCausland, Shane (2014) The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368. London: Reaktion Books.

McCausland, Shane (2011) Zhao Mengfu: Calligraphy and Painting for Khubilai's China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

McCausland, Shane and Ling, Lizhong (2010) Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings, 15th-20th Century, from the Shanghai Museum. London: Scala Publications.

McCausland, Shane and McKelway, Matthew P (2009) Chinese Romance from a Japanese Brush: Kano Sansetsu's Chogonka Scrolls in the Chester Beatty Library. London: Scala Publications.

McCausland, Shane (2003) First Masterpiece of Chinese Painting: The Admonitions Scroll. London: British Museum Press.

Pierson, Stacey and McCausland, Shane (2003) Song Ceramics: Objects of Admiration. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

McCausland, Shane and Liang, Tian S., eds. (2016) Hong Ling: A Retrospective. Taipei: Soka Art.

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

McCausland, Shane and Hwang, Yin, eds. (2014) On Telling Images of China: Essays in Narrative Painting and Visual Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

McCausland, Shane, ed. (2003) Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll. London: British Museum Press.

McCausland, Shane, ed. (2001) The Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies picture-scroll by Hironobu Kohara. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. (Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Occasional Papers, 1)

Book Chapters

McCausland, Shane (2024) 'Introduction: The circulation of maps, money and cultural media.' In: Harrison-Hall, Jessica, (ed.), China’s 1800s: Material and Visual Culture. London: The British Museum, pp. 122-123. (British Museum Research Publications, 241)

McCausland, Shane (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: Spee, Clarissa von, (ed.), China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art.

McCausland, Shane (2023) 'Wu Changshi (吳昌碩 1844–1927).' In: Lovell, Julia and Harrison-Hall, Jessica, (eds.), Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives - From Empire to Republic, 1796-1912. London: Thames and Hudson.

Blair, Sheila and McCausland, Shane (2023) 'Visual Sources.' In: Biran, Michal and Kim, Hodong, (eds.), Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1349-1398.

McCausland, Shane (2022) 'The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire.' In: May, Timothy and Hope, Michael, (eds.), The Mongol World. London: Routledge, pp. 534-559. (Routledge Worlds)

McCausland, Shane (2019) 'Intermediary Moments: Framing and Scrolling Devices Across Painting, Print and Film in Chinese Visual Narratives.' In: Wagner-Durand, Elisabeth, Fath, Barbara and Heinemann, Alexander, (eds.), Image – Narration – Context: Visual Narration in Cultures and Societies of the Old World. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, pp. 157-175. (Freiburger Studien zur Archäologie und visuellen Kultur)

McCausland, Shane (2016) 'Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror.' In: Powers, Martin J. and Tsiang, Katherine R., (eds.), A Companion to Chinese Art. Chichester: Wiley, pp. 115-135. (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Art History)

McCausland, Shane (2014) 'Exemplary Complicity: The Pictorial Lives of Han Court Beauties in Two Narrative Handscrolls of Mid-Ming Suzhou.' In: McCausland, Shane and Hwang, Yin, (eds.), On Telling Images of China: Essays in Narrative Painting and Visual Culture. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 89-116.

McCausland, Shane (2012) 'Copying and Transmitting, Knowledge and Nonsense: From the Great Encyclopedia to A Book from the Sky.' In: Pearce, Nick and Steuber, Jason, (eds.), Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China. Gainsville: University Press of Florida.

McCausland, Shane (2012) '"To achieve no closer likeness": Wang Zhenpeng and his Boya Playing the Qin.' In: Hua guan [Views of painting]. Beijing: Peking University Press.

McCausland, Shane (2012) 'Visual Narratology in China and Japan around 1600 - a comparative study.' In: Green, Alexandra, (ed.), Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 41-59.

McCausland, Shane (2011) 'Chen Hongshou and His Workshop.' In: Ching, Dora C-Y, Murck, Alfreda, Silbergeld, Jerome and Smith, Judith G., (eds.), Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 165-184.

McCausland, Shane (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]. Beijing: Peking University Press, pp. 275-288.

McCausland, Shane (2009) 'Empires at Odds: the Qianlong Emperor and Lord Macartney’s British Mission.' In: McCormack, Jerusha, (ed.), Thomas Davis Lectures 2008: China and the Irish. Dublin: New Island, pp. 14-25.

McCausland, Shane (2004) 'The Guan-Ge controversy in light of Song-Yuan aesthetics and connoisseurship.' In: Pierson, Stacey, (ed.), Song Ceramics: Art History, Archaeology and Technology. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London, pp. 29-47. (Percival David Foundation Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, No. 22)

McCausland, Shane (2003) 'Connoisseurship.' In: Pierson, Stacey and McCausland, Shane, (eds.), Song Ceramics: Objects of Admiration. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, pp. 15-18.

McCausland, Shane (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: McCausland, Shane, (ed.), Gu Kaizhi and the Admonitions Scroll. London: British Museum Press. (Percival David Foundation Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia)

Journal Article

McCausland, Shane (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 《美术大观》 (Art Panorama), 2024 (3). pp. 12-28.

McCausland, Shane (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). pp. 51-83.

McCausland, Shane (2015) 'Seeing Well-being: A revisionist view of Yuan (1271-1368) painting.' Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 78 (2013-14). pp. 101-112.

McCausland, Shane (2014) 'Discourses of Visual Learning in Yuan painting - the case of Luo Zhichuan's "Snowy River".' Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 42. pp. 375-405.

McCausland, Shane (2010) '"An archaeology of the spirit" – Louis le Brocquy’s Image of Bono (2003).' Virtual Collection of Asian Masterpieces.

McCausland, Shane (2007) 'Kanō Sansetsu [1591-1651] and the Song of Everlasting Sorrow [Chōgonka].' Japan Society Proceedings (146). pp. 105-123.

McCausland, Shane (2005) 'Nihonga meets Gu Kaizhi: A Japanese copy of a Chinese painting in the British Museum.' The Art Bulletin, 87 (4). pp. 688-713.

McCausland, Shane (2001) 'The Admonitions scroll: ideals of etiquette, art and empire from early China.' Orientations, 32 (6). pp. 22-29.

McCausland, Shane (2001) 'The Emperor’s Old Toys: rethinking the Yongzheng (1723-35) "Scroll of Antiquities" in the Percival David Foundation.' Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society (66). pp. 65-75.

McCausland, Shane (2000) 'Private lives, public faces—relics of calligraphy by Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322), Guan Daosheng (1262-1319) and their children.' Oriental Art, XLVI (5). pp. 38-47.

Book Reviews

McCausland, Shane (2015) 'Review of Tamara Heimarck Bentley, 'The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599 [sic]–1652): Authentic Voices/Expanding Markets'.' China Review International, 19 (4). pp. 569-571.

McCausland, Shane (2014) 'Review of Craig Clunas, Screen of Kings: Royal art and power in Ming China (London: Reaktion Books, 2013).' The Burlington Magazine, CLVI (July 2014). p. 466.

McCausland, Shane (2012) 'Review of De-nin Deanna Lee, The Night Banquet: A Chinese Scroll through Time (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011).' Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 42 . pp. 486-492.

McCausland, Shane (2002) 'Modernity and Subjectivity in China.' Art History, 25 (3). pp. 380-381.

Shows/Exhibitions

McCausland, Shane and Liang, Tian S. (2016) Hong Ling: A Retrospective. [Shows/Exhibitions]

McCausland, Shane (2015) Ding Yi Solo Exhibition: What's Left to Appear 《何所示: 丁乙个展》. [Shows/Exhibitions]

McCausland, Shane, Ling, Lizhong and Shan, Guolin (2010) Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings, 15th-20th Century, from the Shanghai Museum. [Shows/Exhibitions]

McCausland, Shane (2008) Arts of the Book – East Asia. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

McCausland, Shane (2024) ‘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?). 澎湃新闻 (Pengpai xinwen) (The Paper), Ancient Art section [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Theses

McCausland, Shane (2000) Zhao Mengfu (1254-1322) and the revolution of elite culture in Mongol China. PhD thesis. Princeton University.