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.