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Gladston P, 2024, '‘Humour/Youmo in Chinese Contemporary Art and Online Visual Culture: Identifying the Intertextual Traces of Confucian-literati Aesthetics’', in Gieskes M; Williams GH (ed.), Humor, Globalization, and Culture-specificity in Contemporary Art, Bloomsbury, London

Gladston P, 2023, 'Dis-/Continuing Traditions: Chinese Contemporary Art and the Polylogic Translation of Confucian-literati Culture', in Gladston P; Jin H; Yan H (ed.), Translation Studies and China: Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts, Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/Translation-Studies-and-China-Literature-Cinema-and-Visual-Arts/Yan-Jin-Gladston/p/book/9781032563978

Yan H; Jin H; Gladston P, 2023, 'Afterword', in Translation Studies and China: Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts, pp. 235 - 236

Gladston P, 2023, ''Reading Transcultural Aesthetics through Images'', in Coalter C (ed.), Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury Contemporary Aesthetics/History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury, London and New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350892989-0001

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2022, '‘Chinese Confucian-literati Culture and Post-Enlightenment Philosophical Aesthetics’', in Coalter C (ed.), Bloomsbury Philosophy Library – Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics, Bloomsbury., London and New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350930377.001

Gladston P; Kennedy-Schtyk B, 2021, 'Rendering Frontiers: From China's Historical Dynastic-Imperial to Modern Republican Borders and the Changing Significances of Chinese Art', in Gladston P; Turner M; Kennedy-Schtyk B (ed.), Visual Culture wars at the Borders of Contemporary China: Art, Design, Film, New Media and the Prospects of "Post-West" Contemporaneity, Palgrave Macmillan, London and Singapore, pp. 105 - 130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5293-6_5

Gladston P, 2021, 'Foreword', in Hogan J (ed.), Survival Aesthetics © Interview Series: On Post-Contemporary Art Practice in Japan, Japan Foundation

Gladston P, 2021, '‘#15 Change – Mountain in Full Bloom, Yicong Guo’', in UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, UNESCO, Paris, pp. 94 - 97

Gladston P, 2021, '超越鄙视(当代性:论关于国际后现代主义艺术理论和中国当代艺术理论的多方对话 (Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): toward a polylogue of international and localized perspectives on the significances of Chinese contemporary art),', in Lu CY (ed.), China as an Issue: Artistic and Intellectual Practices Since the Second Half of the Twentieth Century vol.4, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, pp. 61 - 85

Gladston P; Kennedy-Schtyk B; Turner M, 2021, 'Introduction', in Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China, Springer Singapore, pp. 1 - 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5293-6_1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Case study: The work of Zhang Peili and the Pond Association (Chi she)', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 137 - 170, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Critical art and aesthetics within China and Euro-America before modernism', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 43 - 74, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Modernisms within and outside China', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 75 - 104, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Postmodernisms and contemporaneity within and outside China', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 105 - 135, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2020, 'Prolegomenon Post-Enlightenment aesthetic modernity, postmodernity and contemporaneity', in CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART, AESTHETIC MODERNITY AND ZHANG PEILI: TOWARDS A CRITICAL CONTEMPORANEITY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC, pp. 11 - 41, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000607455800002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Gladston P, 2019, '‘Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Aesthetic Social Engagement’', in Sharing and Participating - 'The Commons': Art and Social Aesthetic Education, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

Gladston P, 2019, '‘Rethinking Contemporaneity: Zhang Peili’s Video Installation A Gust of Wind (Zeng feng) as an Index of Polylogic Critical resistance’', in Proceedings of the Conference Aesthetics, Society and the Travels of Critical Theory International Conference, Beijing Normal University, Beijing

Gladston P, 2018, '‘A/n (Disjunctive) Encycling of Notes on the Work of the Artist Setsuko Ono’,', in Setsuko Ono, Parallax-Asia House, London

Gladston P, 2018, '‘Critical Reflections on Yu Youhan’s Paintings as a Locus of Aesthetic Modernity’', in Yu Youhan: Representational-Abstract, Long Museum, Chongqing

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 2018, '‘Of Nühua (‘women’s painting’) and the Absenting of Ink: A Critical Meditation on Works by the Artist Fu Xiaotong’,', in Fan F; Wang C (ed.), New Debates on Ink Art: The Genealogy of Ink Art and Its Conceptual Changes – The Historical Identity Dimensions, Wuhan Art Museum – Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, Wuhan - Hebei, pp. 432 - 488

Gladston P, 2017, '‘Conversación con Paul Gladston and Lynne Howarth-Gladston’', in La Construcción de la(s) historia(s) del arte contemporáneo en China, Edicions Ballatera, Barcelona

Gladston P, 2017, '‘Critical Reflections on Yu Youhan’s Paintings as a Locus of Aesthetic Modernity’', in Yu Youhan – PSA Collection Series, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

Gladston P, 2016, '‘Besiege Wei to Rescue Zhao’: A Stratagem Towards a Post-crisical Art', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 65 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_6

Gladston P, 2016, '‘Sound Can Be Seen and Form Can Be Heard’', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 139 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_18

Gladston P, 2016, '“Beyond Contemp(oranei)t(y): towards a discursive polylogue of international postmodernist and Chinese contemporary art theory”', in Gao M (ed.), Criteria-Method-Context, Central Compilation and Translation Press, Beijing

Gladston P, 2016, 'A Short Essay About the Work of Wang Xin and Chen Yongwei', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 183 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_24

Gladston P, 2016, 'Answering the Question—‘What is the Chinese Avant-Garde?’', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 121 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_14

Gladston P, 2016, 'Collaboration as Struggle and Non-cooperation', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 129 - 132, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_16

Gladston P, 2016, 'Cultural Translation and Post hoc Intellectual Conceit', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 55 - 64, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_5

Gladston P, 2016, 'Disjuncture—Tradition—Indirectness', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 125 - 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_15

Gladston P, 2016, 'Inside the Yellow Box', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 95 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_11

Gladston P, 2016, 'International Curatorial Practice and the Problematic De-Territorialization of the ‘Identity’ Show', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 17 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_2

Gladston P, 2016, 'Low Resolution', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 115 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_13

Gladston P, 2016, 'Objectless Desire', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 167 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_21

Gladston P, 2016, 'Qianwei (‘Avant-Garde’) Art in Reform-Era China', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 31 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_3

Gladston P, 2016, 'Silence and Recuperation', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 83 - 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_8

Gladston P, 2016, 'The (Continuing) Story of Ai', in Chinese Contemporary Art Series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 89 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46488-5_10

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P; Gladston LH, 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

Gladston P, 2015, '‘A (Disjointed) Series of Notes on Works by the Artist Jia’', in The Chinese Version: Jia, Walther König, Köln:

Gladston P; Howarth-Gladston L, 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

Gladston P, 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

Gladston P, 2015, 'Entry on the artist Xu Bing', in Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, Vol. 4, Oxford University Press

Gladston P, 2014, '‘(Re-)Constructing (Contemporary) Chinese Art: Towards a Polylogue between International and Chinese Theoretical Paradigms’', in Post-Conflict Cultures: Topographies of Reconstruction, CCCP

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


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