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Book Chapters
, 2016, 'The 14th Month (After the Great Flood)', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 177 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_23
, 2016, 'The Cult of Ai', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 85 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_9
, 2016, 'The Double Way', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 79 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_7
, 2016, 'Time, Life and Nature', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 133 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_17
, 2016, 'Track Changes', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 105 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_12
, 2015, 'Overlit realm/inner world: A loosely articulated series of notes on the work of the artist Lu Xinjian', in Deconstructing Contemporary Chinese Art Selected Critical Writings and Conversations 2007 2014, pp. 161 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_20
, 2015, '‘A (Disjointed) Series of Notes on Works by the Artist Jia’', in The Chinese Version: Jia, Walther König, Köln:
, 2015, '‘A (Disjointed) Series of Notes towards a Reading of Lu Xinjian’s Series of Paintings, Constellations’', in Lu Xinjian: Constellations, Art Labour Gallery, Shanghai
, 2015, '‘Within and Between Floating Wor(l)ds: a (Disjointed) Series of notes on the Work of the Artist Paul Furneaux’', in Paul Furneaux: Outside-Inside, a Contemporary Use of Japanese Woodcut Printing, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh
, 2015, 'Entry on the artist Xu Bing', in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Vol. 4, Oxford University Press
, 2014, '‘(Re-)Constructing (Contemporary) Chinese Art: Towards a Polylogue between International and Chinese Theoretical Paradigms’', in Post-Conflict Cultures: Topographies of Reconstruction, CCCP
, 2014, '‘Immersion: Song Ling’s Early Development as an Artist in the PRC’', in Ghosts in the Mirror – Song Ling, 1985-2013, Today Art Museum, Beijing
, 2014, '‘International Curatorial Practice and The Problematic (De-)Territorialization of the International Survey Show: Critical Reflections on the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism and the Asia Triennial Triennial II’', in Triennial City: Localising Asian Art, Cornerhouse Manchester
, 2014, '‘Interpreting Contemporary Chinese Art: Towards a “Telepathic” Polylogue’', in Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University
, 2014, '‘Overlit Realm/Inner World: a Loosely Articulated Series of Notes on the Work of the Artist Lu Xinjian’', in Lu Xinjian City DNA IV, Hua Gallery, London
, 2013, 'China's Post-Maoist 'Avant-garde' in Context: Modern and Contemporary Art in China, 1911-2011', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 9 - 36, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2013, 'The Northern Art Group (Beifang yishu qunti)', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 83 - 119, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2013, 'The Pond Association (Chi she)', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 121 - 157, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2013, 'THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 37 - 81, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2013, 'Xiamen Dada (Xiamen Dada)', in AVANT-GARDE ART GROUPS IN CHINA, 1979-1989: THE STARS - THE NORTHERN ART GROUP - THE POND ASSOCIATION - XIAMEN DADA A CRITICAL POLYLOGUE, INTELLECT LTD, pp. 159 - 175, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000329513400006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
, 2013, '‘(W)Est [by] Non-(W)Est: A Series of (Dislocated Critical Reflections on the Staging of the Third Guangzhou Triennial, “Farewell to Post-colonialism/Towards a Post-West Society?”’', in The Third Guangzhou Triennial: Reader 3, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
, 2013, '‘Objectless Desire: a Loosely Articulated Series of Notes on Works by the Painter Tang Shu’', in Still Waters Run Deep: Tang Shu Works, Aroundspace Gallery, Shanghai
, 2012, '‘A Concise Series of Statements (that May or May not be) About the Work of the Artist Han Feng’', in Han Feng: Works, Aroundspace Gallery, Shanghai
, 2012, '‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition’', in Art of Change: New Directions from China, Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London
, 2012, '‘Towards a Polylogue of Chinese and Western Contemporary Art Criticism’', in China and the West: Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life, Cambridge Scholars
, 2012, '‘Traces of Empire: Deconstructing Hou Hanru’s “Post-colonialist” Reading of Contemporary Chinese Art’', in Contemporary Chinese Art and Film: Theory Applied and Resisted, New Academia, Washington DC
, 2012, 'Scholary captions for works by Zeng Fanzhi and Weng Peijun', in Barcelona Colecciona: Arte contemporáneo en les colecciones prvidas, Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona:
, 2012, 'Scholary captions for works by Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Huan and Weng Peijun', in Barcelona Colecciona/col-lecciona, Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona
, 2011, '‘Locating Displacement: Envisioning the Complex “Diasporization” of Contemporary Chinese Art’', in Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, VDG, Weimar
, 2011, '‘Low Resolution: Towards an Uncertain Reading of the Art of Zhang Peili’', in Zhang Peili: Certain Pleasures, Mingsheng Gallery, Shanghai
, 2011, '‘State of the Art: Davide Quadrio in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, VDG, Weimar
, 2011, '‘The 14th Month (After the Great Flood): Towards an Alternative Reading of Yang Jiechang’s Stranger than Paradise’', in Yang Jiechang: Tale of the 11th Day, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
, 2011, '‘What the Fu*@k is Birdhead?: the Critic Ge Si Di in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Birdhead: Welcome to Birdhead World Again, London, Paradise Row Gallery, London
, 2011, '‘Zhang Peili in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Zhang Peili: 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Awards – Lifetime Contribution, Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA), Hong Kong
, 2010, '‘Searching for the Truth (Within the Facts): The Art of Wei Chu Yu’', in Transvision: the Art of Wei Chu Yu, Sunbow Gallery, Shanghai
, 2010, '‘Towards a Discursive Polylogue of Chinese and Western Contemporary Art Theory’ - alongside essays by Profs. Alan Munslow and Donald Preziosi', in Parallax the first En Avant group exhibition, Chris Barlow Fine Art, London
, 2010, '‘Towards a Discursive Polylogue of Western and Chinese Contemporary Art Criticism’ in The Second “China Contemporary Art Forum”’', in 2010 Beijing International Conference on Art Theory and Criticism – Presentation Outline, Dossier and Reference, Wall Art Museum, Beijing
, 2009, '‘Bloody Animals! - Reinterpreting Acts of Sacrificial Violence against Animals as Part of Contemporary Chinese Artistic Practice’', in Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Taboo, Bodies and Identities, Cambridge Scholars
, 2009, '‘Critical Reflections on the Staging of the Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society’', in The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Farewell to Post-Colonialism: Towards a Post-West Society, Printed Projects, Dublin
, 2009, '‘Shu Qun in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Shu Qun: Collected Works, The OCT Art and Design Gallery at the He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen
, 2008, '‘Something (and Nothing) Beyond the Text: An Essay on the Work of Song Kun’', in Fragments: Xijia River Lethe - catalogue for an exhibition of work by the artist Song Kun, Timezone 8 / Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing
, 2008, '‘Zhang Peili in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Artistic Working Manual of Zhang Peili, The OCT Art and Design Gallery at the He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen
, 2007, '‘An Interview with He Sai Bang’', in He Sai Bang: Listening to Shapes, China 2000 Fine Art, New York
, 2007, '‘Overcoming the Anxiety of Displacement: Song Tao and B6’s Yard’', in Diaspora(s) Movements and Cultures, CCCP
, 2006, '‘Sublime Ruins – Monumental Follies: The Photo(historio)graphy of Erasmus Schroeter’', in Post-conflict Cultures: Rituals of Representation, Zoilus Press, London
Edited Books
Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L; Kuo J; Chang J, (eds.), 2024, Rethinking Displays of Chinese Contemporary Art: Diversity and Tradition, Palgrave-Macmillan
, 2023, Translation Studies and China: Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003435327
Gladston P; Kennedy-Schtyk B; Turner M, (eds.), 2021, Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China: Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of "Post-West" Contemporaneity, Palgrave Macmillan
Gladston P; Vigneron F; Howarth-Gladston L; Koon YK; Wang C, (eds.), 2020, Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (book series, 2020-ongoing), Palgrave Macmillan, https://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/16532
Gladston P; Lu D, (ed.), 2017, Journal for Cultural Research - special edition ‘Art, Curatorial Practice and Social Engagement in Contemporary China’