商品簡介
The Kong Koan was the semi-autonomous Chinese Council in the Dutch colony of Batavia from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Its record of births, deaths, marriages, court cases, and other data on the Chinese community there is now in Leiden University. Historian discuss several aspects of Chinese life in southeastern Asia that the archive reveals. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Leonard Blusse, Doctorate (1986) in History, Leiden University, is currently Professor for the History of Asian-European Relations at Leiden University and Professor of Southeast Asian History at the Nanyang Research School of Xiamen University.Menghong Chen is writing a doctoral thesis on the history of the Kong Koan of Batavia at Leiden University.
