Patronage and the beginning of a modern art world in late Qing Shanghai / Kuiyi Shen
Uncommon themes and uncommon subject matters in Ren Xiong's Album after poems by Yao Xie / Britta Erickson
Deliberate looks : Ren Bonian's 1888 Album of women / Roberta Wue
The traditionalist response to modernity : the Chinese painting society of Shanghai / Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen
Notes on Chinese photography and advertising in late nineteenth-century Shanghai / Jonathan Hay
Artwork, commodity, event : representations of the female body in modern Chinese pictorials / Yingjin Zhang
The bare truth : nudes, sex, and the modernization project in Shanghai pictorials / Carrie Waara
Shanghai women of 1939 : visuality and the limits of feminine modernity / Shu-mei Shih
Art deco and modernist art in Chinese calendar posters / Ellen Johnston Laing
The Park Hotel in Shanghai : a metaphor for 1930s China / Lenore Hietkamp
Afterword. The Shanghai gaze : visula culture and images of modernity / Wen-hsin Yeh.