Soup (湯) Transform , recovered toy transformers, part of a collection recovered from various beaches over a three year period, ©Mandy Barker, courtesy of the artist and WYNG Masters Award . More

Soup (湯) Lotus Garden , a collection of different species of waste artificial flowers, including lotus flowers, leaves and petals, peony, carnation, rose, blossom, holly, ferns, castor and ivy leaves, recovered from various beaches over a three year period, ©Mandy Barker, courtesy of the artist More

S oup (湯) Lighter , part of a collection of discarded cigarette lighters recovered from various beaches in Hong Kong over a three year period, © Mandy Barker, courtesy of the artist and WYNG Masters Award. More

Fig. 13c. Annapurna Dutta, from the private collection of Late Amitabha (Siddhartha) Ghosh; courtesy of the Urban History Documentation Archive, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta More

Fig. 3. Materials from the AAA Collection on China, Courtesy of Going Merry Design Company. More

Fig. 4. Digital screen displaying historic photographs of Tibet from the collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum alongside Nyema Droma’s installation. Photograph: John Cairns, © Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. More

Fig. 9. Ōkubo Koroku, Emergency Scene , 1933. Collection of the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. More

Fig. 5. Lu Xun, Design on his essay collection, Graves , 1926. More

Fig. 17. Fruit Seller Bangalore , publisher unknown. From the private collection of Dr Stephen P. Hughes. Sent from unknown location to Lancashire on April 5, 1917. More

Fig. 23. A Jutka, Madras , publisher unknown. From the private collection of Dr Stephen P. Hughes. Sent from Lahore to Bergerac on September 7, 1905. More

Fig. 36. Front cover of May Reynolds’ postcard album. From the private collection of Dr Stephen P. Hughes. More

Fig. 3. Framed memorial portraits awaiting collection at a Jaffna framing shop. National Identity Card photography, though an embodiment of state surveillance, classification and securitisation further exacerbated by conflict, possess extraordinary afterlives, conjugated into new forms and uses More

Fig. 2. Exhibition view, Portrait Hot: Taikang Photography Collection , 2017. Courtesy of Taikang Space. More

Figure 18. The same Mao statue in the 1970s. Photographer unknown, private collection, Toronto. More

Fig. 1: Shinsaku Izumi The Shadow , c. 193126.3 x 34cmPrivate collection. More

Fig. 23. “Whiping [sic] Prisoner,” East Asia Image Collection (Easton, PA: Lafayette College, 2012), at http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia/imperial-postcards/ip0766 . More

Fig. 1. Van Vechten, Carl, Ram Gopal, April 21, 1938, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, © The Carl Van Vechten Trust. More