Preface
Nancy Micklewright
Ottoman Statecraft and the “Pencil of Nature”: Photography, Painting, and Drawing at the Court of Sultan Abdülaziz
Mary Roberts
Royal Portrait Photography in Iran: Constructions of Masculinity, Representations of Power
Ali Behdad
Photography and Afghan Diplomacy in the Early Twentieth Century
Holly Edwards
Presenting the Self: Pictorial and Photographic Discourses in Nineteenth-century Dutch Indies and Siam
John Clark
The Aesthetics and Politics of Royal Portraiture in Thailand
Maurizio Peleggi
Korean Royal Portraits in the Colonial Archives
Christine Kim
Handle with Care: Shaping the Official Image of the Emperor in Early Meiji Japan
Maki Fukuoka
Prince Chun through the Lens: Negotiating the Photographic Medium in Royal Images
Yi Gu
The Mandarin at Home and Abroad: Picturing Li Hongzhang
Roberta Wue
Lingering between Tradition and Innovation: Photographic Portraits of Empress Dowager Cixi
Ying-chen Peng
The Empress Dowager’s Birthday: The Photographs of Cixi’s Long Life Without End
Claire Roberts
