“Historicity, Visuality and Patterns of Literati Transcendence: Picturing the Red Cliff,” in Shane McCausland and Hwang Yin eds., On Telling Images of China: Essays in Narrative Painting and Visual Culture (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013）, pp. 177-212.

This volume gathers ledited by Shane McCausland and Hwang Yin, is a key volume exploring how Chinese paintings function as narratives that shape cultural memory and visual discourse. It reframes painting as a vehicle of storytelling, ideology, and identity rather than solely as aesthetic objects. My chapter examines the enduring Red Cliff theme, showing how literati artists employed visual strategies to negotiate historical imagination, poetic resonance, and transcendence. It highlights painting’s role in constructing literati identity and historical consciousness.