By Professor Paul Gladston

Book Chapters

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 2014, '‘Interpreting Contemporary Chinese Art: Towards a “Telepathic” Polylogue’', in Future Returns: Contemporary Art from China, Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 2012, '‘Somewhere (and Nowhere) between Modernity and Tradition’', in Art of Change: New Directions from China, Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 2012, 'Scholary captions for works by Zeng Fanzhi and Weng Peijun', in Barcelona Colecciona: Arte contemporáneo en les colecciones prvidas, Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona:

Gladston P, 2012, 'Scholary captions for works by Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Huan and Weng Peijun', in Barcelona Colecciona/col-lecciona, Fundación Francisco Godia, Barcelona

Gladston P, 2011, '‘Locating Displacement: Envisioning the Complex “Diasporization” of Contemporary Chinese Art’', in Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, VDG, Weimar

Gladston P, 2011, '‘Low Resolution: Towards an Uncertain Reading of the Art of Zhang Peili’', in Zhang Peili: Certain Pleasures, Mingsheng Gallery, Shanghai

Gladston P, 2011, '‘State of the Art: Davide Quadrio in Conversation with Paul Gladston’', in Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, VDG, Weimar

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 2007, '‘An Interview with He Sai Bang’', in He Sai Bang: Listening to Shapes, China 2000 Fine Art, New York

Gladston P, 2007, '‘Overcoming the Anxiety of Displacement: Song Tao and B6’s Yard’', in Diaspora(s) Movements and Cultures, CCCP

Gladston P, 2006, '‘Sublime Ruins – Monumental Follies: The Photo(historio)graphy of Erasmus Schroeter’', in Post-conflict Cultures: Rituals of Representation, Zoilus Press, London

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