A Colonial Tragedy: The Chinese Massacre at Batavia, 1740

Leonard Blussé

doi:10.24415/9789400605145

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Edition: 1/2025
Copyright Year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-477-0
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0514-5
ePub ISBN: 9789400605411
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Language: English
Pages: 280
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
Chapter 1. Setting the Stage: Dutch trade and the Chinese Diaspora No access Pages 15 - 28
Chapter 2. The Chinese puzzle No access Pages 29 - 44
Chapter 3. Pieter van Hoorn’s Colonization Plans No access Pages 45 - 52
Chapter 4. Joan van Hoorn, Colonizer of the Ommelanden No access Pages 53 - 64
Chapter 5. The Chinese Surge No access Pages 65 - 76
Chapter 6. Different Century, New Protagonists No access Pages 77 - 98
Chapter 7. The Crisis of Governance No access Pages 99 - 104
Chapter 8. The Slapping Hand of the Lord No access Pages 105 - 112
Chapter 9. Adriaan Valckenier in the Lime Light No access Pages 113 - 124
Chapter 10. Der Wille Zur Macht: Van Imhoff Goes to Ceylon No access Pages 125 - 130
Chapter 11. ‘The Ship Is Half Sunken’: Batavia seen through Chinese eyes No access Pages 131 - 144
Chapter 12. Small Causes, Great Consequences No access Pages 145 - 152
Chapter 13. Beyond the City Walls: the Outbreak of the Chinese Rebellion No access Pages 153 - 180
Chapter 14. Within the City Walls: Fear and Amok No access Pages 181 - 204
Chapter 15. History at the Crossroads No access Pages 205 - 224
Chapter 16. Peripetia and Catharsis No access Pages 225 - 244
Afterword No access Pages 245 - 244
Afterword. Prospero and Caliban No access Pages 245 - 246
Notes No access Pages 247 - 258
Acknowledgements No access Pages 259 - 260
Bibliography No access Pages 261 - 272
Illustration Credits No access Pages 273 - 274
Index of Names No access Pages 275 - 278