Abstract:
Prologue : the ruins of Champa -- CHAPTER I: The humanist dilemma -- CHAPTER II: China's Caribbean -- CHAPTER III: The fate of Vietnam -- CHAPTER IV:The concert of civilizations? -- CHAPTER V:The good autocrat -- CHAPTER VI: America's colonial burden -- CHAPTER VII:Asia's Berlin -- CHAPTER VIII:The state of nature -- Epilogue : the slums of Borneo.