• Figures
• Credits
• Introduction: The Errant Gaze

• Part I: Specularity
1. Specularity and the Limits of Vision
2. Li Ruzhen and Laughing at the Gibbon
3. Chen Sen and the Coin of Gender
• Part II: Spectatorship
1. Wumingshi and Pictorial Fetishism
2. Jin Yong and Picturing Nationalism
3. Eileen Chang and Photographic Nostalgia
• Part III: Screened Projections
1. Li Yung-p'ing and Spectral Cartography
2. Gao Xingjian and Maternal Photographs
3. Wang Shuo and Historical Portraiture
4. ChuT'ien-wen and Cinematic Shadows

Carlos Rojas is Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies at Duke University.