Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER 1 French Imperialism and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway 21
6. CHAPTER 2 An Attempted Civil Conquest of Yunnan’s Mines and Muslim Communities 49
7. CHAPTER 3 Navigating the Chinese Labor Market for Coolies, 1903–1907 69
8. CHAPTER 4 Dominating the Laboring Body: French Medicine and Jurisdiction in Yunnan 95
9. CHAPTER 5 Yunnan’s Path to Nationhood: Railways, Labor, and Nationalism 123
10. CHAPTER 6 Nationalist Activism and the Completion of the Railway 157
11. Epilogue 185
12. Notes 191
13. Bibliography 215
14. Index 233