| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Pt. I | The Fetish of Appearance | |
| Ch. 1 | The "I" of a Lingua Franca | 13 |
| Ch. 2 | What Did Not Happen to Indonesians | 38 |
| Ch. 3 | Fetishizing Appearance, or Is "I" a Criminal? | 54 |
| Pt. II | Recognition | |
| Ch. 4 | Student Hidjau and The Feeling of Freedom | 97 |
| Ch. 5 | Scandal, Women, Authors, and Sino-Malay Nationalism | 115 |
| Ch. 6 | Love Sick, or the Failures of the Fetish and of Translation | 134 |
| Ch. 7 | The Wish for Hierarchy | 161 |
| Pt. III | Revolution | |
| Ch. 8 | Collaboration and Cautious Rebellion | 183 |
| Ch. 9 | Revolution | 208 |
| Epilogue | 231 |
| Notes | 255 |