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Authored Books

McCausland, Shane (2017) The Art of the Chinese Picture-scroll: Text/Image/Medium. London: Reaktion books. (Forthcoming)

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.

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 (2020) 'The Art History and Material Culture of the Yuan Empire.' In: May, Timothy and Hope, Michael, (eds.), The Mongol World. London: Routledge Publishing. (Routledge Worlds) (Forthcoming)

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 and Blair, Sheila (2018) 'Visual Sources for the Mongol Empire.' In: Biran, Michal and Kim, Hodong, (eds.), Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming)

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: John Wiley & Sons, 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. (Forthcoming)

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, (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 & Archaeology in Asia, No. 22)

McCausland, Shane (2003) 'Connoisseurship.' In: Pierson, Stacey and McCausland, SFM, (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 (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 Ceramics 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 ((2012)). pp. 375-405.

McCausland, Shane (2010) '"An archaeology of the spirit" – Louis le Brocquy’s Image of Bono (2003).' Virtual Collection of 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, LXXXVI (4). pp. 688-713.

McCausland, Shane (2001) 'The Admonitions scroll: ideals of etiquette, art & 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 .

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]

Theses

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