Inventing a "Chinese" portrait style in early photography : the case of Milton Miller -- Photography's subjugation of China : a "magnificent collection" of Second Opium War images -- Birth of the self and the nation : cutting the queue -- Self as art : Jin Shisheng and his interior space -- Searching for immortal mountains : the origins and aesthetics -- A Second history : an archive of manipulated photographs -- The "old photo craze" and contemporary Chinese art -- Mo Yi : the story of an urban ethnographer -- Liu Zheng : My countrymen -- Rong Rong : ruins as autobiography -- Miao Xiaochun : journeying through space and time.