The essays in this book investigate the early history and culture of the photography studio in China and Japan with particular attention to the genre of the studio portrait, and the ability of those portraits to devise modern, gendered, nationalistic, and public identities for its subjects.

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