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 Fl'neur 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.