Table of Contents
1. Mitchell-Innes and Orts – Who is M. Raquez? - Batavia – King Norodom and Master Léopold – A Water-borne Mirage – Doctor of Law - Slow Boat to China
2. In the Land of Pagodas – Exote Flâneur Punk - The Paris of the Orient – General Chen Jitong - Not a single li is level - The Sounds of Guiyang – Vérascope Richard – Mayflies
3. Sugar Stick – Bird or Mouse? - Governor General Doumer – Endangered Species - Liquor and Opium – I always carry a khene in my luggage - Good Enough to Eat - Muang Sing - Soul-piercing Desolation – Le Comptoir Laotien
4. Le Petit Lac - F. H. Schneider – Laotian Pages - Mysterious Angkor - L'exposition de Hanoi – Human Zoos - Adventures with the Press Corps - Governor General Beau – War with Challaye
5. Famine in Guangxi, Railroads in Guangzhou - Norodom's Last Bon Om Touk - Salome in Singapore – Chulalongkorn's Jubilee - Sel Hybat - Is the Emperor Mad? - Even the dead are partying – Farewell to the King of the Khmers – Typhoon
6. Adieu, Hanoi - The Conquest of Hearts - Instructions pour les voyageurs - Postcards and Singing Ghosts - What Day is This? - Sisavang Vong's Dancing Rats - Everyone wanted to see the King's funeral pyre
7. Home Again - The Colonial Exposition of 1906 – Pigeon Coop – La plus gracieuse des Ballerines laotiennes – Sisowath's Royal Troupe - Avant Garde Exoticism – The Christopher Columbus of Laos – Naturhistorisches Museum Wien
8. Black Pox or Death by Valentine? - Eulogies and Monuments - L'affaire Gervais - Loose Ends – The Unknowable - Fading Traces – The Repressed Returns
9. Longing for the Past