Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 To Document: Building Libraries and a Colonial Information Order 16
7. 2 To Be in Public: Infrastructures of Public Reading Culture 56
8. 3 To Circulate: Libraries as Vehicles of Cultural Propaganda 100
9. 4 To Read: Binh Dân Thư Viện and Vietnamese Language Nationalism 132
10. 5 To Reassemble: The Decolonization of Libraries 170
11. Epilogue 207
12. Notes 223
13. Bibliography 269
14. Index 281