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

Author : Leonard Blussé

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 32,79 MB

Release : 2018-02-12

Category : History

ISBN : 9004356703

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In The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795) Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of Chinese Batavia. The main part of this study is devoted to the annotated translation of a unique historical study of the Chinese community of Batavia (Jakarta) written by an anonymous Chinese author at the end of the 18th century, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji. This historical document and a selection of other Chinese contemporary sources throw new light on a tragic event in the history of Southeast Asia’s overseas Chinese: the massacre of Batavia’s Chinese community in 1740.



How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination

Author : Eugene Nulman

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 15,40 MB

Release : 2024-11-29

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1040184618

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How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television explores the representations of capitalism, the state, and their alternatives in popular screen media texts. Acknowledging the problems that stem systemically from capitalism and the state, this book investigates an often-overlooked reason why society struggles to imagine alternative economic and political systems in our neoliberal age: popular culture. The book analyzes 455 screen media texts in search of critiques and alternative representations of these systems and demonstrates the ways in which film and television shape the way we collectively see the world and imagine our political futures. It suggests that popular culture is the answer to the question of why it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Contributing to the areas of sociology, media studies, and utopian studies, this book provides insights into the topic of popular culture and politics in a theoretically informed and entertaining manner. The book will be useful to both students and scholars interested in these topics, as well as activists and organizers seeking to make the world a better place.



A World History of the Seas

Author : Michael North

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 329 pages

File Size : 16,87 MB

Release : 2021-11-18

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1350145459

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Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, A World History of the Seas takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world.



Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies, 1880–1942

Author : Gregor Benton

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 628 pages

File Size : 49,25 MB

Release : 2022-09-19

Category : History

ISBN : 303105024X

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This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which was in part special to the Chinese strain. Using fieldwork findings from the tin islands of Bangka and Belitung and the Deli plantations on Sumatra as well as archival materials in Dutch, Chinese, and other languages held in libraries in Java, Nanjing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Leiden, this book presents cutting-edge research that sets out to contribute to the revising of our historical understanding of indenture.



The Deshima Diaries 1641-1660

Author : Cynthia Vialle

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 962 pages

File Size : 32,2 MB

Release : 2023

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9004510214

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The Deshima Diaries provide invaluable daily information on social and economic life in Tokugawa Japan in the early years of the Sakoku period.



The Dutch in the Early Modern World

Author : David Onnekink

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 14,85 MB

Release : 2019-06-06

Category : History

ISBN : 1107125812

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Presents an overview of early modern Dutch history in global context, focusing on themes that resonate with current concerns.



Strangers in the Family

Author : Guo-Quan Seng

Publisher : Cornell University Press

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 47,13 MB

Release : 2023-11-15

Category : History

ISBN : 150177252X

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In Strangers in the Family, Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816–1942). At the heart of this story lies the creolization of patrilineal Confucian marital and familial norms to the colonial legal, moral, and sexual conditions of urban Java. Departing from male-centered narratives of Ooverseas Chinese communities, Strangers in the Family tells the history of community- formation from the perspective of women who were subordinate to, and alienated from, full Chinese selfhood. From native concubines and mothers, creole Chinese daughters, and wives and matriarchs, to the first generation of colonial-educated feminists, Seng showcases women's moral agency as they negotiated, manipulated, and debated men in positions of authority over their rights in marriage formation and dissolution. In dialogue with critical studies of colonial Eurasian intimacies, this book explores Asian-centered inter-ethnic patterns of intimate encounters. It shows how contestations over women's place in marriage and in society were formative of a Chinese racial identity in colonial Indonesia.



Elusive Capital

Author : Gipouloux, François

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 15,67 MB

Release : 2022-06-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1800889909

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Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic institutions, and business practices in the divergence between Europe and China during the trade revolution.



The Namban Trade

Author : Mihoko Oka

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 25,70 MB

Release : 2021-07-05

Category : History

ISBN : 9004463879

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Winner of the prize "Fundação Oriente – Embaixador João de Deus Ramos" of the Academia de Marinha 2021 This book attempts to depict certain aspects of the Portuguese trade in East Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries by analyzing the activities of the merchants and Christian missionaries involved. It also discusses the response of the Japanese regime in handling the systemic changes that took place in the Asian seas. Consequently, it explains how Jesuit missionaries forged close ties with local merchants from the start of their activities in East Asian waters, and there is no doubt that the propagation of Christianity in Japan was a result of their cooperation. The author of this book attempted to combine the essence of previous studies by Japanese and western scholars and added several new findings from analyses of original Japanese and European language documents.



Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700

Author : Trude Dijkstra

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 332 pages

File Size : 16,11 MB

Release : 2021-12-28

Category : History

ISBN : 9004473297

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This book discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets, Trude Dijkstra sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and western Europe in the early modern period. Form, content, and material-technical aspects of different media in Dutch and French are analysed, providing novel insights into the ways in which readers could take note of Chinese religion and philosophy. This study thereby demonstrates that there was no singular image of China and its religion and philosophy, but rather a varied array of notions on the subject.