Monographs and Individual Catalogues
Alisan Fine Arts, ed. Li Huasheng: An Individualistic Artist. Hong Kong: Alisan Fine Arts, 1998.
Chang, Tsong-zung, ed. Li Huasheng. Hong Kong: Hanart 2 Gallery, 1990.
Chengdu Wu Hou Shrine Art Museum 成都武侯祠美術館, ed. Li Huasheng 1944-2018 李華生1944-2018. Chengdu: Chengdu Wu Hou Shrine Art Museum, 2018.
Colonnello, Nataline and The Mayor Gallery. Li Huasheng: The Meditation Room. London: The Mayor Gallery, 2016.
Kao Chienhui 高千惠, Lü Peng 呂澎 and Zhu Zhu 朱朱, eds. Li Huasheng 李華生. One of the 17 volumes of Qizhi yu wenming — gaizao lishi: 2000-2009nian de zhongguo xin yishu 氣質與文明——改造歷史：2000-2009年的中國新藝術 (Temperament and Civilization — Reshaping History: China art from 2000-2009). Beijing: Culture and Art Publishing House, 2010.
Liu Xuguang 劉旭光, ed. Zhijue meishu ge’an shuxi: Li Huasheng 質覺美術個案書系：李華生 (Books of Fine Arts of Essence Consciousness: Li Huasheng). Kaifeng: Henan University Press, 2009.
Silbergeld, Jerome and Gong Jisui 龔繼遂. Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.
Yu Jianhua 于建華, ed. Zhongguo dangdai yishu de shige ge’an — bichu: Li Huasheng 中國當代藝術的十個個案——筆觸：李華生 (Ten Cases in Chinese Contemporary Art — Brushstroke: Li Huasheng). Beijing: Economic Press China, 2010.
Articles and Reviews
Cao Siyu 曹絲玉. “Li Huasheng: Mei cheng zai jiu, daxiang wuxing” 李華生：美成在久，大象無形 (Li Huasheng: A Good Completion Takes A Long Time, The Greatest Form Has No Shape). HI ART.cn, Dec. 10, 2014.
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Chen Siyuan 陳思淵. “Li Huasheng yu Xizang” 李華生與西藏 (Li Huasheng and Tibet). Ink Studio official website, 2016.
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Chen Xiaoxin 陳孝信. “Jijian zhong de fengfu: wo yanzhong de Li Huasheng” 極簡中的豐富：我眼中的李華生 (The Richness in Minimalism: My View on Li Huasheng). In Lu Hong 魯虹, ed. Shuimo xin weidu: 2013 pipingjia timing zhan 水墨新維度：2013批評家提名展 (New Dimension of Ink: 2013 Nomination Exhibition by Critics). Shanghai: Shanghai Paintings and Calligraphy Publishing House, 2013, pp. 43-57.
Clark, John. “Review: Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng by Jerome Silbergeld, Gong Jisui.” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 32 (Jul., 1994), pp. 219-220.
Erickson, Britta. “Li Huasheng: He Swallows in All the Great Wilderness…He Becomes Wildly Free.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, vol. 17, No. 3, May/Jun. 2018, pp. 48-57.
Erickson, Britta. “Dangdai Zhongguo huihua xin shili” 當代中國繪畫新勢力：十五位藝術家的抽象作品 (New Forces in Contemporary Chinese Painting: Abstract Works of 15 Artists). Oriental Art 東方藝術, 2018, vol. 23, pp. 118-123.
Gao Minglu. Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011, pp. 21, 314, 329-331, 349.
Gao Minglu 高名潞. “Li Huasheng de xian ‘riji’” 李華生的綫“日記” (“‘Diaries’ of Lines by Li Huasheng”). Excerpted from “Zhongguo jiiduo zhuyi: Yiizhong linglei xing’ershang yishu (xu er)” 中國“極多主義”：一種另類“形而上”藝術（續二）[Chinese Maximalism: An Alternative Metaphysical Art (sequel 2)]. In Northern Art, 2003, No.4, pp. 7-13.
Gao Minglu 高名潞. “Li Huasheng de xian ‘riji’” 李華生的綫“日記” (“‘Diaries’ of Lines by Li Huasheng”). In Linglei fangfa, Linglei xiandai 另類方法，另類現代 (Special Method in Kind, Special Modernism in Kind). Shanghai: Shanghai Paintings and Calligraphy Publishing House, 2006, pp. 63-64. First published in “Zhongguo jiiduo zhuyi: Yiizhong linglei xing’ershang yishu (xu ‘er)” 中國“極多主義”：一種另類“形而上”藝術（續二）[Chinese Maximalism: An Alternative Metaphysical Art (sequel 2)]. In Northern Art, 2003, No.4, pp. 7-13.
Gao Minglu 高名潞. “Li Huasheng de xian ‘riji’” 李華生的綫“日記” (“‘Diaries’ of Lines by Li Huasheng”). In Yishu zhuangtai 藝術狀態 (Artouch), Jul. 2008, pp. 31-33. First published in “Zhongguo jiiduo zhuyi: Yiizhong linglei xing’ershang yishu (xu ‘er)” 中國“極多主義”：一種另類“形而上”藝術（續二）[Chinese Maximalism: An Alternative Metaphysical Art (sequel 2)]. In Northern Art, 2003, No.4, pp. 7-13.
Gao Minglu 高名潞. “Li Huasheng de xian ‘riji’” 李華生的綫“日記” (“‘Diaries’ of Lines by Li Huasheng”). In Jiang Zaiming 蔣再鳴, ed. Zhongguo shi shuxie 中國式書寫 (Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art). Beijing: China Today Art Museum Publishing House, 2011, p. 130. First published in “Zhongguo jiiduo zhuyi: Yiizhong linglei xing’ershang yishu (xu ‘er)” 中國“極多主義”：一種另類“形而上”藝術（續二）[Chinese Maximalism: An Alternative Metaphysical Art (sequel 2)]. In Northern Art, 2003, No.4, pp. 7-13.
Guan Yuda 管鬱達. “Jidao zhi shi: du Li Huasheng jinzuo” 極道之詩：讀李華生近作 (Poetry of the Extreme Dao: Reading the Recent Works of Li Huasheng). In Chen Long 陳龍, ed. 2000 Shanghai shuangnianzhan: haishang Shanghai 2000上海雙年展：海上‧上海 (2000 Shanghai Biennale: Shanghai Spirit). Shanghai: Shanghai Paintings and Calligraphy Publishing House, 2000.
Hardie, Alison. “Review: Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng by Jerome Silbergeld, Gong Jisui.” Far Eastern Economic Review, 1993-11-11, Vol. 156 (45), pp.48.
Hart, Cynthia. The Painting of Li Huasheng. Kuo, Jason C, ed. Heirs to a Great Tradition: Modern Chinese Paintings from the Tsien-Hsiang-Chai Collection (College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 1993), pp. 116-120.
Kraus, Richard. “Review: Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng by Jerome Silbergeld, Gong Jisui.” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 52, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 993-994.
Kuo, Jason C. “Review: Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng by Jerome Silbergeld, Gong Jisui.” In Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. 29, nos. 3-4, 1994, p. 270-271.
Laing, Ellen Johnston. “Review: Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting by Mayching Kao and Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng by Jerome Silbergeld, Gong Jisui.” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun., 1994), pp. 331-332.
“Li Huasheng: An Individualistic Artist.” In The Chinese Culture Center Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 2, spring 1998.
Li Huasheng, Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online, 2011.
Li Xianting 栗憲庭. “Shuimo meijie de dangdai zhuanhuan” 水墨媒介的當代轉換 (The Contemporary conversion of the wash paintings’ media). In Zhongguo yishu 中國藝術 (Chinese Art), no.3, 2008, p.21.
Lin Jinlong 林金龍 and Yuan Meihua 袁美華. “Yihai boji ku zuozhou — Li Zhenggang wiren yu ta de sanxia yuanmao hua” 藝海搏擊苦作舟——李正剛其人與他的三峽原貌畫 (Struggling Through the Sea of Art: Li Zhenggang and his Original Paintings of the Three Gorges). In Qiye wenming 企業文明 (Business Civilization), No. 9, 2010, pp. 94-95.
Lin Xiaoping. “Contemporary Chinese Painting: The Leading Masters and the Younger Generation.” Leonardo, vol. 20, No. 1, 1987, pp. 54.
Ling Chengwei 凌承緯. “Li Huasheng he ta de hua” 李華生和他的畫 (Li Huasheng and his paintings). In Wenhui bao (p.1), Oct. 4, 1982.
Liu, Manni. “Exhibition Review: ‘Li Huasheng: An Individualistic Artist’”, in Orientations Magazine, Vol. 29, No, 8, Sep. 1998, pp. 84-85, and an introduction page.
Lu Hong 魯虹. “Chouxiang shuimo de ‘shuangbi’”— guanyu Wang Chuan yu Li Huasheng de yishu 抽象水墨的“雙璧”——關於王川與李華生的藝術 (Two Jades of Abstract Ink — The Art of Wang Chuan and Li Huasheng”. In Metamorphosis: Anthology of Art Criticism by Lu Hong. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008, pp. 331-334.
Lu Mingjun 魯明軍. “‘Fudiao’ de zaizao yu duixiang de jiefang — yi Li Huasheng weili lun geli boge zai zhongguo” “復調”的再造與對象的解放——以李華生為例論“格林伯格在中國” (The Remaking of ‘Polyphony’ and the Liberation of Object — Taking Li Huasheng as an Example to Discuss ‘Clement Greenberg in China’). In Wenyi yanjiu 文藝研究 (Literature & Art Studies), Sep. 2010, pp. 109-115.
Lu Mingjun 魯明軍. “Shiyan shuimo Zhong de ‘shuxie’: huayu shengcheng yu sixiangshi xushi” 實驗水墨中的“書寫”：話語生成與思想史敘事 (“Writing” in Experience Ink: The Generation of Discourse and Narrative of Ideological History). In Wu Hung 巫鴻 ed. Dangdai shuimo yu meishushi shiye” guoji yantaohui lunwen ji 當代水墨與美術史視野”國際研討會論文集 (Contemporary Ink Painting and Art Historical Perspectives International Symposium). Beijing: The University of Chicago in Beijing, Shenzhen: He Xiangning Art Museum, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Beijing: Center for Visual Studies Peking University, 2010, pp. 45-64.
Lu Mingjun 魯明軍. “Shui de ‘shuimo’? Hewei ‘shuimo’? — ‘Dangdai shuimo yu meishushi shiye’ guoji yantaohui shuping” 誰的“水墨”？何為“水墨”？——“‘當代水墨與美術史視野’國際研討會”述評 (Whose Ink? What is Ink? — A Review on “Contemporary Ink Painting and Art Historical Perspectives International Symposium). In KuArt, issue 18, Feb. 2011, pp.10-15.
Lu Ning 魯寧. “Geren yuanxing, shidai yuanxing, jingshen yuanxing yu shuimo yuanxing — ‘shuimo yuanxing’ huazhan guanhou” 個人原形、時代原形、精神原形與水墨原形——“水墨原形”畫展觀後 (Original Form of the Individual, of the Era, of Sprit, and of Ink and Wash: Impressions of the Exhibition ‘Original Form of Ink and Wash’).” In Northern Art, no. 4, 2012, pp. 18-21.
Lu, Sheldon H. “Review: Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter Li Huasheng by Jerome Silbergeld, Gong Jisui.” The China Quarterly, No. 153 (Mar., 1998), pp. 190-191.
Lü Peng 呂澎. Meishu de gushi: cong wanqing dao jintian 美術的故事：從晚清到今天 (The Story of “Art” in China: From Late Qing Dynasty to Present). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010, pp. 344-345, pl. 12-22.
Lü Peng 呂澎, Zhu Zhu 朱朱 and Kao Chienhui 高千惠, eds. Zhongguo xin yishu sanshi nian 中國新藝術三十年 (Thirty Years of Adventures: Art and Artists Past 1979). Beijing: Timezone 8 Limited, 2010, pp. 99-104, 490-491.
Lü Peng 呂澎. “Li Huasheng de gezi” 李華生的格子 (On Artist Li Huasheng’s Grillwork). In Huang Zhuan, ed. Qiyun: Zhongguo chouxiang yishu guoji xunhuizhan 氣韻：中國抽象藝術國際巡迴展 (Qi Yun: The International Traveling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art). Guangzhou: Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2007, pp. 94-101, 74-93 (plates).
Lü Peng 呂澎. “Li Huasheng de gezi” 李華生的格子 (On Artist Li Huasheng’s Grillwork). In Artouch, Jul. 2008, pp. 34-39. [first published in Qi Yun: The International Traveling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, 2007]
Lü Peng 呂澎. “Li Huasheng de gezi” 李華生的格子 (On Artist Li Huasheng’s Grillwork). In World Art, Oct, 2008, No.76, pp. 117-119. [First published in Qi Yun: The International Traveling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art, 2007]
Lü Peng 呂澎. Ershi shiji zhongguo yishushi 20世紀中國藝術史 (A History of Art in Twentieth-Century China). Beijing: Peking University Press, 2006, pp. 926-927.
Lü Peng 呂澎. Ershi shiji zhongguo yishushi 20世紀中國藝術史 (A History of Art in Twentieth-Century China). Milano: Charta, 2010, pp. 1016 (pl.), 1031 (pl.), 1032-1033, 1033 (pl.).
Po Hung 蒲鴻. “Zhumu: sanzhong guanyu chouxiang yishu de meixue xiangxiang” 竹幕：三種關於抽象藝術的美學想像 (The Bamboo Curtain: Three Aesthetic Conceptualizations of Abstract Art). In Leap, Dec. 2011, issue. 137, pp. 108-115, 108-109 (image and figure legend).
Seed, John. “Contemporary Ink Painting: Continuity, Innovation, Hybridization.” Arts of Asia, Sep-Oct. 2016, pp. 94-101 (the whole article); LHS is on p. 99. p. 100 (image); includes an interview with Britta Erickson.
Spence, Jonathan. “Painting Behind Locked Doors: The Dangerously Shifting Fortunes of the Artist under Communism are Illuminated in A Study of A Chinese Painter.” New York Times, July 4, 1993, Section 7, p. 6.
Sullivan, Michael. Modern Chinese Artists: A Biographical Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006, p. 80, 101 (photo).
Sullivan, Michael. Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1996, pp. 252-254, 306 (short bio), pl. 81.
Sullivan, Michael. The Arts of China (Third Edition). Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1984, p. 262.
Wang Chuan 王川. “Fangge shanshui duju: youguan Li Huasheng de jinzuo” 方格‧山水‧獨居：有關李華生的近作“ (Grid, Landscape and Solitude: On Li Huasheng’s Recent Paintings). In Zha Cangping, ed. Renwen yishu di san ji 人文藝術第三輯 (Humanities and Art 3). Guiyang: Guizhou People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2002, pp. 17-27.
Wang Chuan 王川. “Youguan Li Huasheng he ta de fanggezi” 有關李華生和他的方格子 (On Li Huasheng and his Grids). In Jiangsu Huakan 江蘇畫刊 (Jiangsu Pictorial), No. 4, 2000, pp. 41-42.
Wang Lin 王林. “Zoujin guocheng zhimian xuwu: Li Huasheng shengping yu huazuo jianshu” 走進過程，直面虛無：李華生生平與畫作簡述 (Going into the Process and Facing Nothingness: Li Huasheng’s Life and Paintings). In Shanhua 山花 (Mountain Flowers), No. A5, 2009, pp. 147-149.
Wang Min’an 汪民安, “Chongfu yu xiulian” 重複與修煉 (Repeat and Self-Cultivation). In Zhongguo yishu 中國藝術 (Chinese Art), No.3, 2008, p. 29 (text), pp. 28, 30-47 (images).
Wang Min’an 汪民安. “Chongfu yu xiulian” 重複與修煉 (Repeat and Self-Cultivation). In Shijie yishu 世界藝術 (World Art), Oct. 2008, No. 76, pp. 110-113. [First published in Zhongguo yishu 中國藝術 (Chinese Art), No.3, 2008. ]
Wang Min’an 汪民安. “Chongfu yu xiulian: tan Li Huasheng de huihua” 重複與修煉：談李華生的繪畫 (Reiteration & Cultivation: About Li Huasheng’s Painting). In Guojia meishu (National Art), Jul/Aug. 2009, pp. 74-79. [First published in Zhongguo yishu 中國藝術 (Chinese Art), No.3, 2008. ]
Wen Pei 雯霈, “Chuantong, shenghuo, xiandai qinggan: tan Li Huasheng de shanshuihua” 傳統、生活、現代情感：談李華生的山水畫 (Tradition, Life and Modern Emotion). In Modern Artists, Spring 1985, p.24, pp.32-33 (pl.).
Wu Hung. Contemporary Chinese Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 320 (text), p. 321 (image).
Xu Peijun 徐沛君, “Zhongguo jiduo zhuyi zai Beijing dengchabng” 中國極多主義在北京登場 (The Debut of Chinese Maximalism). In Meishu guancha 美術觀察 (Art Observation), vol. 4, 2003, p. 29.
Group Exhibition Catalogues
Alisan Fine Arts, ed. Ancient Lands Through Modern Eyes: Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting. Hong Kong: Alisan Fine Arts, 1992.
Art Position in Interactive Time. Hong Kong: Art Currents Publisher, 1999, n.p.: 1 p. about Li Huasheng, 2 pp. images, 1 p. Bio.
Chang, Tsongzung, ed. Post Avant-Garde: Chinese Contemporary Art Four Directions of The New Era. Hong Kong: Atting House Limited, 2007, pp. 44-47.
Chen Jiu 陳九, ed. Shuimo dangxia: 2009 Shanghai xinshuimo yishu dazhan 水墨當下：2009上海新水墨藝術大展 (Contemporary Ink Painting: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition). Shanghai: Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, 2009, pp. 114-115 (images).
Chen Long 陳龍, ed. 2000 Shanghai shuangnianzhan: haishang Shanghai 2000上海雙年展：海上‧上海 (2000 Shanghai Biennale: Shanghai Spirit). Shanghai: Shanghai Paintings and Calligraphy Publishing House, 2000, p. 134 (bio), pp. 135-137 (images).
Chen Xiaoxin 陳孝信, ed. ’07 Wenmai dangdai zhongguo banben: Beijing daxing zonghe yishuzhan zuopinji ’07“文脈當代‧中國版本”：北京大型綜合藝術展作品集 (’07 “Contemporary Cultural Venation: China Version”: Beijing Comprehensive Art Exhibition Florilegium). Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2007, pp. 91-92 (images).
Fan Di’an 范迪安, ed. Shoujie zhongguo dangdai yishu nianjian zhan 首屆中國當代藝術年鑒展 (The 1th Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art). Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005, p. 255 (bio), pp. 255-257 (images).
Feng Bin 馮斌, Shen Kuiyi 沈揆一, Britta Erickson and Lu Hong 魯虹. Chongxin qidong: Disanjie chengdu shuangnianzhan 重新啟動：第三屆成都雙年展 (Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale). Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2007, pp. 28-29 (images).
Ferrell, Susanna, ed. Ink Dreams: Sections from the Foundation INK Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, pp. 19, 26-28, 38-39, 44, 52-53, 73, 104, 127, 129, 131-134, 142-143, 212-214.
Fu Zhongwang 傅中望, ed. Zai shuimo: 2000-2012 zhongguo dangdai shuimo yaoqingzhan 再水墨：2000-2012中國當代水墨邀請展 (Re-Ink: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ink and Wash Painting 2000-2012). Wuhan: Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2012, pp. 187-188 (text), 189-193 (image), 194-195 (CV).
Gao Minglu 高名潞, ed. Zhongguo chouxiang yishu: 80 niandai mo zhijin: yiyuan 中國抽象藝術，80年代末至今：憶原 (Chinese Contemporary Abstract, 1980s until Present: Mindmap). Hong Kong: Pearl Lam Galleries, 2012, pp. 32-35.
Gao Minglu 高名潞, ed. Shuimo yuanxing 水墨原形 (Ink As Model). Nanjing: Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2012, pp. 27 (photo), 28-37 (images).
Gao Minglu 高名潞, ed. Shuimo xushi 水墨敘事 (Ink Narrative). Yokohama: Yokohama Zaim Gallery; Hong Kong: Asian Cultural Exchange Association, 2007, pp. 6-10, 20-27 (images), 54-55 (CV).
Gao Minglu 高名潞, ed. Zhongguo jiduo zhuyi 中國極多主義 (Chinese Maximalism). Chongqing: Chongqing Publishing House, 2003, pp. 9, 31 (text), 68-75 (images), 118 (mini CV).
Gu Zhenqing 顧振清, ed. Shuimo zaisheng: 2006 shanghai xinshuimo yishu dazhan 水墨再生：2006上海新水墨藝術大展 (Revival — New Ink Art Shanghai 2006). Shanghai: Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, 2006, p. 26 (image).
Guan Yuda 管郁達, ed. Yishujia richang shenghuoshi 1: wanwu zhuyi 藝術家日常生活史1：玩物主義 (Artist Trival Living I: Object Ruminationism). Chengdu: Blue Roof Museum, 2013, pp. 96 (photo), 97-102 (images), 103–104 (text), 105-111 (interview).
Guangdong Museum of Art 廣東美術館, ed. Cong xi’nan chufa: xi’nan dangdai yishuzhan 1985-2007 從西南出發：西南當代藝術展1985-2007 (Starting from the Southwest: Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China). Macau: Macau Press Co., LTD, 2008, pp. 114 (image and text), 117 (image).
Hearn, Maxwell K. and Wu Hung. Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013, pp. 26 (text), 141 (text), 146-148 (text and figs. 115, 116, 117), 179, 189 n. 20.
Hong Kong Museum of Art, ed. Tradition and Innovation: Twentieth Century Chinese Painting. Hong Kong: The Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 126, pp. 372-373.
Huang Zhuan 黃專, ed. Qiyun: zhongguo chouxiang yishu guoji xunhuizhan 氣韻：中國抽象藝術國際巡迴展 (Qi Yun: The International Traveling Exhibition of Chinese Abstract Art). Guangzhou: Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2007, pp. 73-93 (images), 94-99 (text), 100-101 (short bio).
Jiang Zaiming 蔣再鳴, ed. Zhongguo shi shuxie 中國式書寫 (Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art). Beijing: China Today Art Museum Publishing House, 2011, pp. 130 (text), 131-139 (images).
Jingshen: The Act of Painting in Contemporary China. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana editoriale, 2015, pp. 68-73 (images), 154 (short bio).
Korean-Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting. Seoul: The Seoul Museum of Art, 2005, pp. 78-79.「한·중 현대수묵전」. 서울: 서울시립미술관, 2005, 78-79.
“La Caixa” Foundation and Beijing Culture and Arts Fund, eds. Yipai: Chinese Abstract in thirty years 1970-2007. Palma de Mallorca: “La Caixa” Foundation, 2008, pp. 224 (short bio), 115-227 (images).
Li Bing 李冰, ed. Shoucangjia: shoujie zhongguo dangdai yishu shoucangjia nianhui 收藏家：首屆中國當代藝術收藏家年會 (Collector: First Annual Conference of Collectors of Contemporary Chinese Art). Beijing: Songzhuang Art Promotion Association, 2009, p. 91 (image).
Li Xianting 栗憲庭, ed. Nianzhu yu bichu 念珠與筆觸 (Curator’s Notes on ‘Prayer Beads And Brush Strokes’). Beijing: Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, 2003, pp. 9-11 (text), 27-31 (interview and images), 71 (bio).
Li Xiangyang 李向陽, ed. Weida de tianshang de chouxiang: 21 shiji de zhonguo yishu 偉大的天上的抽象：21世紀的中國藝術 (The Great Celestial Abstraction: Chinese Art in 21st Century). Hong Kong: Chinese Artist Publishing House, 2010, pp. 30-39 (images).
Li Xiaoshan 李小山, ed. Xin zhongguohua dazhan zuopinji 新中國畫大展作品集 (Neo-Inkpaintings in China 2000). Nanning: Guangxi Arts Publishing House Co. Ltd, 2000, pp. 28-30 (images).
Li Xu 李旭, ed. Weilai zhixiang chouxiang yishu 未來指向抽象藝術 (The Future to Abstract Art). Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2011, pp. 50 (photo), 51 (text), 52-61 (images).
Lim, Lucy, ed. Contemporary Chinese Painting: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China. San Francisco: The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, 1983, pp. 16-17 (text), 30 (text), 74-77 (pl.19-20), 165 (photo), 170 (short bio), 183 (short bio).
Liu Dawei 劉大為, ed. Dangdai zhongguo minghuajia ceye zuopinji 當代中國畫名家冊頁作品集 (A Collection of Chinese Painting Albums by the Contemporary Masters). Beijing: People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2007, pp. 58-61 (short bio and images).
Liu Xiaochun 劉驍純, ed. Moyuan 100: zhongguo songzhuang shuimo tongmeng di’erjie mingjia yaoqingzhan 墨緣100：中國‧宋莊水墨同盟第二屆名家邀請展 (Everloving Shuimo: The 2nd Invite Exhibition of the Shuimo Union of Songzhuang China). Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2007, pp. 22-23 (image).
Liu Xin 劉昕, ed. Zhongguo shuimo 2008 Juan yi: huantie shidai 中國水墨2008‧卷一：環鐵時代 (Chinese Ink Painting 2008 Book 1: Huantie Times). Hong Kong: State of Chinese Art Publishing House, 2008, pp. 126-127 (photo), 128-133 (images).
Lu Hong 魯虹, ed. Shuimo xinweidu: 2013 pipingjia timingzhan 水墨新維度：2013批評家提名展 (New Dimension of Ink: 2013 Nomination Exhibition by Critics). Shanghai: Shanghai Paintings and Calligraphy Publishing House, 2013, pp. 43-57 (text and images).
Lu Hong 魯虹 and Michael Kahn-Ackermann, eds. Mo bian: zhongguo dangdai shuimo yishuzhan 墨‧變：中國當代水墨藝術展 (Eine andere Moderne: Zeitgenössische Chinesische Tuschemalerei). Nanjing: Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, 2012, pp. 47-48 (CV), 49–54 (images).
Lu Hong 魯虹, ed. Mo fei mo: zhongguo dangdai shuimo yaoqingzhan 墨非墨：中國當代水墨邀請展 (Ink-Not-Ink: China Contemporary Ink-painting Invitation Exhibition). Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008, p. 19 (image).
Lu Hong 魯虹, ed. 2000-2005 xinshiji zhongguo dangdai yishu tujian 2000-2005新世紀中國當代藝術圖鑑 (New Century Illustrated Handbook of Chinese Contemporary Art 2000-2005). Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006, p. 102 (text and image).
Lu Hong 魯虹. Yuejie: zhongguo xianfeng yishu 1979-2004 越界：中國先鋒藝術1979-2004 (China Avant-Garde Art 1979-2004). Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2006, p. 302 (text and image).
Lu Hong 魯虹, ed. Zhongguo dangdai meishu tujian 中國當代美術圖鑒：1979-1999水墨分冊 (Chinese Contemporary Art Album: 1979-1999 Ink Painting). Wuhan: Hubei Education Press, 2001, pp. 161-162 (text and image).
Lü Peng 呂澎. 2011 Chengdu shuangnianzhan wuse mianyan 2011成都雙年展——物色‧綿延 (2011 Chengdu Biennale — Changing Vistas: Creative Duration). Vol. of Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibition. Chengdu: Sichuan Publishing Group, 2011, pp. 102-103 (short bio + set of 4 more recent landscape).
M+, ed. The Weight of Lightness: Ink Art at M+. Hong Kong: M+, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, 2017, p. 33 (image).
Peng De 彭德 and Li Xiaoshan 李小山. Zuo Jing 左靖, ed. Shoujie zhongguo yishu sannianzhan xia juan 首屆中國藝術三年展（下卷）[The First Triennial of Chinese Arts (Volume 2)]. Wuhan: Hubei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2002, pp. 169 (CV), 170-171 (images).
Pi Daojian 皮道堅 and Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, eds. Diyijie dangdai shuimo kongjian — zhongguo shuimo shiyan ershi nian: 1980-2001 第一屆當代水墨空間——中國水墨實驗二十年: 1980-2001 1st Space for Contemporary Ink Work — China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment 1980-2001. Harbin: Heilongjiang Fine Arts Publishing House, 2001, pp. 112-115 (text and images).
Qin Lingyun 秦嶺雲, ed. Heshan ru huatu 河山如畫圖 (Rivers and Mountains Resemble Paintings). Hong Kong: Artist Press, 1981, pp. 15-16. (images), 63-68 (images), 84 (photo), 86 (bio).
Shenzhen huayuan 深圳畫院 (Shenzhen Fine Arts Institute), ed. Shiyan shuimo huigu:1985-2000 實驗水墨回顧1985-2000 (Retrospection of Experimental Ink & Wash 1985-2000). Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2005, pp. 50-59 (photo, text and images).
Shikong de jingwei: zhongguo dangdai yishu yaoqingzhan 時空的經緯：中國當代藝術邀請展 (Points and Crosses: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in China). Shanghai: Shanghai 2010 Art Center, 2010, pp, 48 (CV, photo), 49 (text), 50–53 (images).
Shuimo bu dengyu shuimohua: Li Huasheng, Zhang Yu, Liang Quan yishuzhan 水墨≠水墨畫：李華生、張羽、梁銓藝術展 (Ink Is Not Equivocal to Ink Painting: Li Huasheng, Zhang Yu, Liang Quan Art Exhibition). Beijing: Hejingyuan Art Museum, 2008, pp. 18-41.
Sprague, Tiffany, ed. Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), p. 139, pl. 126.
The Flowering Field: Contemporary Chinese Painting. New York: Kaikodo and Hong Kong: Luen Chai, 1997, pp. 114-115 (short bio, image).
Shenzhen guoji shuimohua shuangnianzhan zuzhi weiyuanhui 深圳國際水墨畫雙年展組織委員會 (The Organising Committee of the International Ink Painting Biennal of Shenzhen), ed. Di’ er jie Shenzhen guoji shuimohua shuangnianzhan zuopinji 第二屆深圳國際水墨畫雙年展作品集 (Anthology of The Second International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen). Shenzhen: The People’s Government of Shenzhen Municipality, 2000, pp. 72-73 (images).
Wang, Chiachi Jason 王嘉驥. Xing yi zhi yun: dongya dangdai shuimo yishu xinmao 形‧意‧質‧韻：東亞當代水墨藝術新貌 (Form, Idea, Essence and Rhythm: New Aspects of Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting). Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2009, pp.32-34 (images).
Wang Huangsheng 王璜生, ed. Mo he zhi: zhongguo dangdai yishuzhan zuopinji “墨和紙：中國當代藝術展”作品集 (A Collection of Works of “Ink and Paper: Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art”). Guangzhou: Guangdong Museum of Art and Kunsthalle Weimar, 2005, pp. 10-13 (images), p. 38 (short bio).
Xu Xianglin 徐香林, ed. Du: dangdai shuimo fangshi 渡：當代水墨方式 (Du: Expressions of Contemporary Chinese Water and Ink Painting). Hong Kong: Asian Cultural Exchange Association, 2006, pp. 134 (CV), 135-137 (images).
Yan Shanchun 嚴善錞 and Gao Minglu 高名潞, eds. Di si jie shenzhen guoji shuimohua shuangnianzhan (di yi ce): sheji shuimo 第四屆深圳國際水墨畫雙年展（第一冊）：設計水墨 [The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen (vol. 1) Ink Painting: Design]. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2004, p.39, a plate (n.p.); Di si jie shenzhen guoji shuimohua shuangnianzhan (di san ce): shuimo kongjian 第四屆深圳國際水墨畫雙年展（第三冊）：水墨空間 [The 4th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen (vol. 3) Ink Painting: Space]. Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Arts Publishing House, 2004, pp. 20-25 (images), 69 (CV).
Yang Lizhou 楊力舟, ed. Kaifang de shidai: jinian zhongguo meishuguan jianguan 40 zhounian 開放的時代：紀念中國美術館建館40週年 (An Opening Era: Celebration of 40th Anniversary of Founding of China National Museum of Fine Arts). Beijing: National Art Museum of China, 2003, pp. 252-253 (short bio, photo, images).
Yeung, Alan. Luminous Shadows: Michael Cherney, Huang Zhiyang, Hung Fai, Hung Keung, Li Huasheng, Li Jin, Jennifer Wen Ma, Cindy Ng. Beijing: Ink Studio, 2017, pp. 84-111 (short bio, photo, images).
Zhang Chaohui 張朝暉, ed. Shuise: shuimo dangdai yishuzhan 水色：水墨當代藝術展 (Water and Color: Contemporary Ink Art Show). Beijing: Today Art Museum/Joey Chang Art Gallery, 2009, p. 6 (image), p. 8 (text).
Zhang Tiemei 張鐵梅, ed. Di yi jie zhongguo shuimo shuangnianzhan 第一屆中國水墨雙年展 (1st China Chinese Ink Biennale). Beijing: China Drama Publishing House, 2009, pp. 20-21 (images).
Zhang Yu 張羽, ed. Zhongjie shuimohua! cong “shuimohua” dao “shuimo” 终結水墨畫！從 "水墨畫" 到 “水墨” (The Termination of Chinese Ink Painting: From 'Ink Painting' to ‘Ink’). Taichung: Da Xiang Art Space Limited, 2010, pp.57 (bio), 58-65 (images).
Group Painting Collections
Art Calligraphy Collectanea, Nov. 2008, pp. 1-8.
Artist Magazine, Feb. 1996, pp. 332 (image), 342 (text).
“Artist Works: Li Huasheng.” Art Guide, Mar, 2009, pp. 106-108.
Chengdu Lesi Economic Development Corporation 成都樂斯經濟發展總公司, ed. Taohuayuan shuhua ji disi ji: Zhang Daqian, Cheng Zizhuang, Li Huasheng zhuanji 桃花源書畫集‧第四集：張大千、陳子莊、李華生專集 (Calligraphy and Painting Collection of the Land of Peach Blossom vol.4: A Special Issue for Zhang Daqian, Chen Zizhuang and Li Huasheng). Chengdu: Chengdu Lesi Economic Development Corporation, 2007, pp. 48-148.
Kuo, Jason C, ed. Heirs to a Great Tradition: Modern Chinese Paintings from the Tsien-Hsiang-Chai Collection (College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 1993), pp. 50-57(images), 116-120 (text).
Li Huasheng 李華生. “Li Huasheng de yishu” 李華生的藝術 (Li Huasheng’s Art). In Zha Changping 查常平, ed. Renwen yishu di san ji 人文藝術第三輯 (Humanities and Art 3). Guiyang: Guizhou People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2002, pp. 1-16 (images).
Li Huasheng 李華生. Hehua wan qing 荷花萬頃 (Lotus Pond). In Yang Xianyi 楊憲益, ed. Zhongguo wenxue 中國文學 (Chinese Literature), May 1982, frontcover.
Li Huasheng, “Cockcrow at Dawn”. In Ashmolean Museum ed. Modern Chinese Art: The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, pl.62, p.96.
Li Huasheng 李華生. “Shu shan ceye (zhiyi), (zhi’er)” 蜀山冊頁（之一）、（之二）[Shushan Album” (two leaves)]. In Meishu, No.5, 1981, pl.29.
“Li Huasheng zuopin” 李華生作品 (Works of Li Huasheng). In Chinese Art, 2008, No.3, p. 28 (image), pp. 30-47 (images).
“Li Huasheng zuopin” 李華生作品 (Works of Li Huasheng). In Zhongguo yishu 中國藝術 (Chinese Art), No. 3, 2009, pp. 20-21.
Li Huasheng 李華生 and Wang Jindong 王進東. “Jilang hongdeng” 激浪紅燈 (Red Lantern in the Waves). In Sichuan Picturial, Jan. 1973; Wu, Youchang, Li, Huasheng and Lei, Zuhua, “Chair Mao Inspects the Rivers of Sichuan". In Sichuan Picturial, Jan. 1973, front cover.
Liao Shujun 廖淑君, ed. Jiguzhai: Xu Qibing shuhua shoucangji 集古齋：徐啟彬書畫收藏集 (Xu Qibin’s Collections of Calligraphies and Paintings in Jigu Room). Cnengdu: Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2010, pp. 76-90 (images).
Mowry, Robert D., ed. A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from The Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000. Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museum & New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, p. 51 (text), cat. 48, 49.
Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe 天津人民美術出版社 (Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House), ed. Zhongqingnian shanshui huajia zuopin xuna 中青年山水畫家作品選 (A Selection of Artworks by the Young and Middle-aged Landscape Painters). Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 1984, pp. 45-46 (images).
Tianjin renmin meishu chubanshe 天津人民美術出版社 (Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House), ed. Gong nong bing xingxiang xuan: xuanzi 1997 nian quanguao meishu zuopin zhanlan (wu) 工農兵形象選：選自1977年全國美術作品展覽（五）[Selected Images of Workers, Peasants and Solders: Works Selected from the National Fine Arts Exhibition 1977 (vol.5)]. Tianjin: Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, p.5 (detail of an image).
Wang Weizhong 汪衛中, ed. Dangdai zhongguo mingjia jicui: zhongguohua (xia pian) 當代中國名家集萃：中國畫（下篇） [Selected Works by Contemporary Chinese Masters: Ink Painting (Vol.2)]. Shanghai: Shanghai Fine Arts Publishing House, 2008, pp. 47 (photo and bio), 48-56 (images).
Visual Materials and Interviews
Colonnello, Nataline 簫嶺, Lu Qing 路青 and Li Huasheng 李華生. “Jiaocha de chundu: dui Lu Qing he Li Huasheng de fangtan” 交叉的純度：對路青和李華生的訪談 (Criss-Crossed Purity: An Interview Between Abstract Painters Lu Qing and Li Huasheng). On
https://news.artron.net/20040929/n16834.html, Apr. 2003.
Colonnello, Nataline 簫嶺 and Li Huasheng 李華生. “Jiaocha de chundu: dui Li Huasheng de fangtan” 交叉的純度：對李華生的訪談 (Criss-Crossed Purity: An Interview with Li Huasheng). In Chinese Art, 2008, No. 3, pp. 117-119. First published in 2003 on
https://news.artron.net/20040929/n16834.html, Apr. 2003.
Colonnello, Nataline 簫嶺. “Jiaocha de chundu: dui Li Huasheng de fangtan” 交叉的純度：對李華生的訪談 (The Purity of crossover: interviewing Li Huasheng). In World Art, Oct. 2008, No. 76, pp. 114-116. First published in 2003 on
https://news.artron.net/20040929/n16834.html, Apr. 2003.
Colonnello, Nataline 簫嶺. “Fangtan: Xiao Ling yu Li Huasheng” 訪談：蕭嶺與李華生 (Interview: Nataline Colonnello and Li Huasheng).” In Artouch, Jul. 2008, pp. 40-44. First published in 2003 on
https://news.artron.net/20040929/n16834.html, Apr. 2003.
Guan Yuda 管郁達 and Li Huasheng 李華生. “‘Wo de yishu xianzai xiang zoudao le yige qingbi’: Guan Yuda yu Li Huasheng de duihua” “我的藝術現在像走到了一個牆壁”：管鬱達與李華生的談話 (“‘My Art Now Comes to A Wall’: A Conversation between Guan Yuda and Li Huasheng). In Guan Yuda, ed. Artist Trival Living I: Object Ruminationism. Chengdu: Blue Roof Museum, 2013, pp. 105-111.
“Li Huasheng’s Ambivalence.” In the series The Enduring Passion of Ink, directed by Britta Erickson, filmed by Richard Widmer. San Francisco, California: Kanopy Streaming, 2017.
https://www.kanopy.com/product/enduring-passion-ink?pos=3
Li Huasheng 李華生. “Xianshi bu zhide ni qu ai” 李華生：現實不值得你去愛 (Reality Is Not Worthy of Love).” 2016, filmed by Alan Yeung and Chen Siyuan 陳思淵.
https://www.inkstudio.com.cn/video/12/
Liao Wen 廖雯 and Li Huasheng 李華生. “Li Huasheng fangtan lu” 李華生訪談錄 (Recording a Conversation with Li Huasheng). In Li Xianting 栗憲庭, ed. Nianzhu yu bichu 念珠與筆觸 (Curator’s Notes on ‘Prayer Beads And Brush Strokes’). Beijing: Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, 2003, pp. 27-28.
Liao Wen 廖雯. “Nianzhu yu bichu: Li Huasheng fangtan lu” 念珠與筆觸：李華生訪談錄 (The Prayer Beads And the Brush Strokes: Recording a Conversation with Li Huasheng). In World Art, 2008, No.3, pp. 120-121. [First published in Li Xianting 栗憲庭, ed. Nianzhu yu bichu 念珠與筆觸 (Curator’s Notes on ‘Prayer Beads And Brush Strokes’). Beijing: Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, 2003, pp. 27-28.]
Liao Wen 廖雯. “Li Huasheng fangtan” 李華生訪談 (An Interview on Li Huasheng). In Liu, Xuguang, ed. Books of Fine Arts of Essence Consciousness: Li Huasheng. Kaifeng: Henan University Press, 2009, pp. 46-53. [First published in Li Xianting 栗憲庭, ed. Nianzhu yu bichu 念珠與筆觸 (Curator’s Notes on ‘Prayer Beads And Brush Strokes’). Beijing: Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, 2003, pp. 27-28.]
Wang Gaowei 王高偉, Li Huasheng 李華生, Zhang Yu 張羽 and Liang Quan 梁銓. “Yishujia Li Huasheng, Zhang Yu, Liang Quan fangtan” 藝術家李華生、張羽、梁銓訪談 (An interview with the Artists Li Huasheng, Zhang Yu and Liang Quan). Feature on artron.net, 4 Aug, 2008.
https://news.artron.net/20080804/n55432.html
Wei, Lilly 魏愷 and Li Huasheng 李華生. “Li Huasheng: ‘Yigen xian shi xuwu de, dang wo hua yige pinigzi de shihou, bianshang de yigen xian shi meiyou de, shi yizao de’” 李華生：“一根綫是虛無的。當我畫一個瓶子的時候，邊上的一跟綫是沒有的，是臆造的” (Li Huasheng: ‘A line is nothing. When I paint a vase, its outline does not exist, it is imagined’). Studio International, Sep. 11, 2016.
https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/li-huasheng-interview-a-line-is-nothing
Zhang Yu 張羽. Yishu zuo wo ziji: Zhang Yun fantang lu 藝術 做我自己：張羽訪談錄 (Art Makes Me: Interview with Zhang Yu). Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2014, p. 96 (photo pf Zhang You and Li Huasheng in Japan, 2007).
Artist Files
Artist File: Li Huasheng, Detroit Institute of Art Research Library & Archives.
Artist File: Li Huasheng, The Museum of Modern Art.
Individual File: Li Huasheng, Asia Art Archive.