CONTENTS List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations CHAPTER 1  Introduction: Ethnography and the Colonial State   Three Colonies   Making Sense of Colonial Variations   The Specificity of the Colonial State   Precolonial Mimicry and the Central Role of Native Policy   Toward an Explanation: The Colonial State as Social field   Symbolic and Imaginary Identifications   Resistance, Collaboration, and Infections of Native Policy by Its Addressees   Imperial Germany and the German Empire PART ONE: SOUTH WEST AFRICA CHAPTER 2   "A World Composed Almost Entirely of Contradictions": Southwest Africans in German Eyes, before Colonialism   Precolonial and Protocolonial Imagery of Southwest Africans   The Khoikhoi: The Path to Precolonial Mimicry   The Rehoboth Basters: Pure Intermediacy   The Ovaherero: A Radically Simplified Ethnographic Discourse   Toward Colonialism CHAPTER 3   From Native Policy to Genocide to Eugenics: German Southwest Africa   Accessing the Inaccessible   The Germans and the Witbooi People   "Rivers of Blood and Rivers of Money": Germans and Ovaherero   Collaboration and the Rule of Difference: The Reheboth Basters under German Rule   Conclusion PART TWO: SAMOA CHAPTER 4   "A Foreign Race That All Travelers Have Agreed to be the Most Engaging": The Creation of the Samoan Noble savage, by way of Tahiti   The Idea of Polynesian Noble Savagery   Europeans on Polynesia in the Wake of Wallis and Bougainville: The Tahitian Metonym   Polynesia and Tahiti in German Eyes, 1770s-1850   Nineteenth-Century Social Change in Polynesia and the Increasing Attractiveness of Samoa   Nineteenth-Century Samoa: From Lapérouse to the Germans   The Evolution of European and German Representations of Samoa   Precolonial Guidelines for a Future Native Policy   CHAPTER 5   "The Spirit of the German Nation at Work in the Antipodes": German Colonialism in Samoa, 1900-1914   Salvage Colonialism   The Sources of Native Policy in Samoa   Class distinction and Class Exaltation   Conclusion: Resistance and the Limits on Colonial Native Policy PART THREE: CHINA CHAPTER 6   The Foreign Devil's Handwriting: German Views of China before "Kiautschou"   Europe's Cathay   Sinomania   German Views of China in the Era of Sinomania   The Rise of Sinophobia   German Sinophobia   En Route to Quingdao: Speaking of the Devil   Multivocality in German Representations of China at the End of the Nineteenth Century   Toward "German-China"   Transition CHAPTER 7   A Pact with the (Foreign) Devil: Qingdao as a Colony   Bumrush the Show: Germans in Colonial Kiaochow, 1897-1905   Shaken, Not Stirred: Segregated Colonial Space and Radical Alterity During the First Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1897-1904   German Native Policy in Kiaochow, Compared   Early Native Policy and the Haunting of Sinophobia by Sinophilia   The Seminar for Oriental Languages and German Sinology as a Conduit for Sinophilia   Rapproachment: The Second Phase of German Colonialism in Kiaochow, 1905-14   Explaining the Shift in Native Policy   Conclusion CHAPTER 8   Conclusion: Colonial Afterlives Appendix 1: A Note on Sources and Procedures Appendix 2: Head Administrators of German Southwest Africa, Samoa, and Kiaochow Bibliography Index.