German colonialism revisited: African, Asian, and Oceanic experiences

Introduction / Nina Berman, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Patrice Nganang

Architecture with a mission : Bamum autoethnography during the period of German colonialism / Itohan I. Osayimwese

"The Germans cannot master our language!" or, German colonial rulers and the Beti in the Cameroonian hinterlands / Germain Nyada (translated by Amber Suggitt)

Sex and control in Germany's overseas possessions : venereal disease and indigenous agency / Daniel J. Walter

Ruga-ruga : the history of an African profession, 1820-1918 / Michael Pesek

Bomani : African soldiers as colonial intermediaries in German East Africa, 1890-1914 / Michelle Moyd

Pioneers of empire? : the making of sisal plantations in German East Africa, 1890-1917 / Hanan Sabea

"Zake: the Papuan chief" : an alliance with a German missionary in colonial Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (Oceania) / Gabriele Richter

Germany and the Chinese coolie : labor, resistance, and the struggle for equality, 1884-1914 / Andreas Steen

The other German colonialism" : power, conflict, and resistance in a German-speaking mission to China, ca. 1850-1920 / Thoralf Klein

Nationalism and pragmatism : the revolutionists in German Qingdao (1897-1914) / Jianjun Zhu

Anti-colonial nationalism and cosmopolitan "standard time" : Lala Har Dayal's Forty four months in Germany and Turkey (1920) / B. Venkat Mani

"Acting cannibal" : intersecting strategies, conflicting interests, and the ambiguities of cultural resistance in Iringa, German East Africa / Eva Bischoff

The "Truppenspieler Show" : Herero masculinity and the German colonial military aesthetic / Molly McCullers

Recollection and intervention : memory of German colonialism in contemporary African migrant's writing / Dirk Göttsche

The shadows of history : photography and colonialism in William Kentridge's Black box/Chambre noire / Andrew J. Hennlich

Germans and the death throes of the Qing : Mo Yan's The sandalwood torture / Yixu Lu

The origins of German minority cinema in colonial film / Patrice Nganang.