Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Visuality and the colonial modern: the technics of proletarian culture, nativism, modernism, and mobilization
  • Visible and invisible states: liberation, occupation, division
  • Ambivalent anticommunism: the politics of despair and the erotics of language
  • Development as devolution: overcoming Communism and the "land of excrement" incident
  • Return to the colonial present: translation, collaboration, Pan-Asianism
  • Postscript.