Admission：

Free

language：

English

Seats：

100

ABOUT THE CURATOR：

Shane McCausland is a researcher of art history and a curator specializing in the arts of China from medieval to contemporary times. Since 2009, he has been an academic at SOAS, University of London. He was previously deputy director for collections and curator of East Asian art at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. As an undergraduate, he read Oriental Studies (Chinese) at Cambridge University and received his doctorate in art history with East Asian studies from Princeton University

with a thesis on Zhao Mengfu written under the supervision of the Shanghai-born scholar Wen C. Fong 方聞. He has organized many exhibitions, including a major loan exhibition from the Shanghai
Museum to the Chester Beatty Library at the time of the Shanghai Expo in 2010, entitled Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings, 15th-20th Century, from the Shanghai Museum 描 繪中國, in collaboration with Shan Guolin and Ling Lizhong. He has also published many books and
articles including, most recently, The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368 (London: Reaktion Books, 2014). Chinese editions of his books on Mongol-Yuan art and on the calligraphy and painting of Zhao Mengfu are forthcoming.