Le Petit Lac – F.H. Schneider – Laotian Pages – Mysterious Angkor – L’exposition de Hanoi – Human Zoos – Adventures with the Press Corps – Governor General Beau – War with Challaye

Includes excerpts from Raquez’s work for periodicals as well as details of his work with the Hanoi Colonial Exposition and publication of his second book. History of French Hanoi as both model colonial city and colonial confection; critical contextualization of the parti colonial and colonial media machine; Pierre Loti and the French view of Southeast Asian ruins; the Hanoi exposition of 1902: critical contextualization of colonial expositions and “human zoos”; early tourism in Tonkin; Raquez gets cosy with the new Governor-General, Paul Beau, enhancing his own position in Indochina society and media; Raquez’s war of words with a young Félicien Challaye, staunch critic of colonialism and later highly respected philosopher and pacifist.