Luke Gartlan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography (2016), coeditor (with Ali Behdad) of Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation (2013), and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed quarterly journal History of Photography. He has held research fellowships at the University of Vienna, Nihon University, Tokyo, and the Australian National University, and has guest edited a special issue on photography in nineteenth-century Japan for History of Photography 33, no. 2 (May 2009).

Roberta Wue is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on art, photography, and print culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China, with a particular interest in the rhetoric of the modern Chinese image and its relationships with its viewers. She is the author of Art Worlds: Artists, Images, and Audiences in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai (2015), and co-author of Picturing Hong Kong: Photography 1855-1910 (1997).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Note on Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Luke Gartlan and Roberta Wue

Part I Studios and Photographers

2 Shimizu T¿koku and the Japanese Carte de Visite: Circumscriptions of Yokohama Photography

Luke Gartlan

3 Group Encounters: Milton M. Miller's Hong Kong and Canton Photographs

Roberta Wue

4 Powkee and the Era of Large Studios

Yi Gu

Part II Sitters and Domestic Markets

5 Guiding the Sitter: Matsuzaki Shinji's Dos and Don'ts for the Photographic Customer

Sebastian Dobson

6 Chinese Ideas of Likeness: Painting, Photography, and Intermediality

Claire Roberts

7 Inscribed Photographic Portraits: Commemoration and Self-Fashioning in Republican-Period China

Richard K. Kent

8 One, and the Same: The Double in Photographic Portraiture from Republican China

H. Tiffany Lee

Part III Citizens and Subjects

9 The Fluidity of Representation: Early Photographs, Asakusa, and Kabuki

Maki Fukuoka

10 From Private to Public: Shifting Conceptions of Women's Portrait Photography in Late Meiji Japan

Karen M. Fraser

11 The Republican Lady, the Courtesan, and the Photograph: Visibility and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century China

Joan Judge

Appendix Matsuzaki Shinji's Dos and Don'ts for the Photographic Customer

Translated by Sebastian Dobson

Glossary of Chinese and Japanese Characters

Bibliography

Index