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.