CONTENTS

PROLOGUE: The Ruins of Champa......................xv
CHAPTER 1: The Humanist Dilemma.......................5
CHAPTER II: China's Caribbean.....................32
CHAPTER III: The Fate of Vietnam.............................51
CHAPTER IV: Concert of Civilizations?........................71
CHAPTER V: The Good Autocrat........................92
CHAPTER VI: America's Colonial Burden..................117
CHAPTER VII: Asia's Berlin.......................139