Leonard Blussé

Natalie Everts

Evelien Frech

The Formosan Encounter: 1623-1635

Femme S Gaastra

The starting point of this volume is the scathing attack, far-reaching in its consequences, launched in 1942 by J.C. van Leur on the views then current on the character and significance of the 18th century as a category in Asian history. His denial of European pre-eminence in Asian waters represented a direct attack on colonial historiography. The essays here derive from an international conference held 50 years later, to assess the impact of van Leur’s work. In part historiographic, in part drawing on new research, they aim to delimit the boundaries of European-Asian interaction, and to provide case studies of what this period actually meant for the history of South and East Aia.

Van Leur in Retrospect

On the Eighteenth Century as a Category of Asian History

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Shifting Communities and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia

Evert Groenendijk

Cynthia Vialle

Dutch, Chinese, Japanese Relations : Transactions

Canton and Nagasaki Compared, 1730-1830

Studie over de Chinese immigranten en de halfbloed vrouwen van de Hollanders ten tijde van de VOC in Batavia

Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women, and the Dutch in VOC Batavia

Strange Company

Nie Dening

In The Chinese Annals of Batavia Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of the Chinese community of Batavia.

The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795)

Leonard Blussé

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