(Excluding conference papers, book reviews, and interviews)
‘The Vicissitudes of the VOC in East Asia, Some Reflections on the Deshima Diaries in the 1640-1660 Period.’ ( Higashi Ajia in okeru Oranda Tō-Indo kaisha no seisui) in Tokyo Daigaku Shiryo Hensan-jo Kenkyu Kiyo. ( Research Annual of the Historiographical Institute) No. 29 (2019): 36-51. ) in Japanese’
‘Towards a Hybrid Seagoing Ship: The Transfer and Exchange of Maritime Know-How and Shipbuilding Technology between Holland and Japan before the Opening of Japan (1853)’, in Angela Schottenhammer ed, Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: 227-250.
‘Archipelagoes of River Towns, Medium sized Cities of the Lower Yangzi and Rhine Basin Compared: 1350-1850.’in L. Blussé and Wang Zhenzhong eds, A Comparative Reflection About the Yangtze River and the Rhine. Shanghai: Zhongxi Book Company 2019. 323-334.
‘Suffren, Falck and Ceylon’ in Prasad Fonseka ed. Prof. K.D. Paranavitana Felicitation Volume. Colombo: S. Godage & Bros. 2018. 55-63.
with Xu Guanmian , ‘Land Reclamation in the Rhine and Yangzi Deltas:
An Explorative Comparison, 1600–1800′, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and the Social Sciences.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-018-0223-1. 1-33.
‘Chasing Rumors: In Search of the Overseas News Communications in Early Modern Time’ in Liu Shiuh-feng ed., Transmission of Information and Mutual Understanding across the Asian Waters. (Maritime History Series 2). Taipei: RCHSS, Academia Sinica 2018. 1-24.
‘Oceanus Resartus: or, is Chinese Maritime History Coming of Age?’in Cross-Currents, East Asian History and Culture review, E-Journal No. 25 (December 2017): 8-25. (http://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-25)
‘Dueling wills: Dutch administration and Formosan Power, 1624-68’ in Kenneth M. Swope and Tonio Andrade eds., Early Modern East Asia. War, Commerce and Cultural Exchange. London: Routledge 2018. Pp. 65-82.
‘在澳门的短暂交锋’ in 海洋史研究 10 (2017) : 95-114.
‘Ex Oriente Lux. Henk Wesseling en Azië’, in Mai Spijkers ed., Een Tachtiger, Een hommage aan H.L.Wesseling. Amsterdam: Prometheus 2017. 55-63. 77-88.
‘It all began with a Cleveringa Lecture: The Kong Koan Archive of Batavia’ in
Alexander Reeuwijk ed, Voyage of Discovery, exploring the collections of the Asian Library at Leiden University. Leiden: Leiden University Press 2017. Pp. 202-213,
‘The Kaiba Lidai Shiji , an autonomous history of the Chinese community of Batavia/Jakarta in the VOC period’, Wacana , Journal Ilmus Pengetahuan Budaya . Vol. 18-2 (2017), 385-401.
‘Chinees Batavia of Gelaba, het land van de klapperboom’ in Thijs Westeijn en Menno Jonker eds. Barbaren & Wijsgeren. Het beeld van China in de Gouden Eeuw. Haarlem: Van Tilt & Frans Hals Museum 2017. 52-56.
‘ Shame and Scandal in the Family: Dutch Eavesdropping on the Zheng Lineage’ in Tonio Andrade and Xing Hang eds, Sea Rovers, Silver and Samurai, Maritime Easty Asia in Global History, 1550-1700. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press 2016. pp. 226-237.
‘Scene uit de verovering van de Canarische eilanden, een re-interpretatie van Jan Jansz. Mostaerts schilderij Landschap met een episode uit de verovering van Amerika‘ . In Kunstschrift, June 2016. 54-55.
‘Het ware gezicht van een rare Chinees’, Zeeuws Tijdschrift , March 2016.
‘ Northern European Empires in Asia, the VOC’ in Hamish Scott ed, Early Modern European History, 1350-1750. Oxford: Oxford UP 2015. Vol. 2: 227-253.
‘Nevenactiviteiten overzee, Valckenier en Van Imhoff en de Chinezenmoord van 1740’ in Anita van Dissel, Maurits Ebben en Karwan Fatah-Black red., Reizen door het maritieme verleden van Nederland. Zutphen: Walburg Pers 2015. pp. 273-292.
受雇于荷兰东印度公司的中国水’in 尤飞君主编，杨帆海上丝绸之路，烟台：黄海数字出版社2015。pp.14-20。
‘Van tussenpersonen, tolken en trotse heersers. Inheemse stemmen uit het verre verleden van het eiland Formosa’, in Lodewijk Wagenaar ed, Aan de overkant. Ontmoetingen in dienst van de VOC en WIC (1600-1800). Leiden:Sidestone Press 2015, pp. 11-33.
‘John Chinaman Abroad: Chinese sailors in the Service of the VOC’ in Alicia Schrikker and Jeroen Touwen eds, _Promises and Predicaments, Trade and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Independent Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Singapore: NUS Press 2015. pp. 101-112.
‘有臭味的茶叶'(Badly smelling tea) 广东社会科学 (Guangdong Social Science Journal)，2014-2, pp. 106-113. Chinese translation of no. 101.
‘Peeking into the Empires: Dutch Embassies to the Courts of China and Japan’ in Itinerario Vol.37-3. pp. 14-29.
‘Thee met een luchtje. Experimenten met vervoer van Chinese thee door Ezechiël Lombard.’in Eric van der Doe, Perry Moree en Dirk J. Tang e.a, Buitgemaakt en teruggevonden, Nederlandse brieven en scheepspieren in een Engels archief. Zutphen: Walburg Pers 2013. pp.154-165.
‘Koning Willem I en de schepping van de koloniale staat’ In Ido de Haan, Paul den Hoed en Henk te Velde ed, Een nieuwe staat. Het begin van het koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Amsterdam: Prometheus.Bert Bakker 2013. pp. 145-172.
‘Port Cities of Southeast Asia’ In Peter Clark ed, _The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History._Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013. pp.346-363.
(together with Natalie Everts). ‘The Kavalan people of the Lan Yang plain four hunderd years ago’ in 宜兰研究 Yilan yanjiu , no. 9 (2012), pp. 265-280.
‘Driemaal is scheepsrecht. Batavia 1619, 1627-1629’. In Herman Amersfoort, Hans Blom, Dennis Bos, Gijsbert van Es eds, Belaagd en belegerd. Amsterdam Uitgeverij Balans 2011. pp.147-169.
‘Junks to Java: Chinese shipping to the Nanyang in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century’, in Eric Tagliacozzo and Chang Wen-Chin eds, Chinese Circulations , Capital. Commodities and Networks in Southeast Asia. Durham: Duke UP 2011. pp. 221-258.
‘Ver sacrum, Hoe het ’t Verzuymd Brazil en ’t Verwaerloosde Formosa verloren gingen in Maurits Ebben e.e. eds, Alle streken van het kompas, Maritime geschiedenis in Nederland. Zutphen: Walburg pers 2010, pp. 147-174.
‘Overzeese verkenningen op het grensvlak van geschiedenis en sociologie’ in Jacques van Hoof e.a. eds, J.A.A. van Doorn en de Nederlandse sociologie, de erfenis, het debat en de toekomst. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications 2010. pp. 69-74.
‘‘From the Stoep to the Veranda. Colonial Life among the Elite in Ancien Régime Batavia’ in Claire Laux, François-Joseph Ruggiu & Pierre Singaravélou eds, At the Top of the Empire, European Elites in the Colonies ( 16th-20th Century). Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang 2009.
‘Winds of Change: 1780-1810, The Crucial Years in the Canton and Nagasaki Trade’. In Evert Groenedijk e.a. eds, Canton and Nagasaki Compared 1730-1830, Dutch, Chinese and Japanese Relations. Intercontinenta no.26 Leiden: Institute for the History of European Expansion 2009, pp. 15-21.
‘From a Plurality of Cultures towards Plural Societies: Changes of Regime and Colonial State Formation in the Malay Archipelago, 1780-1830’ in Liao Shaolian ed, Malaysia and Sino-Malaysian Relations in a Changing World, Xiamen: Xiamen U.P. 2008, pp. 124-137.
‘On the Waterfront: Life and Labour Around the Batavian Roadstead’ in Haneda Masashi ed, Asian Port Cities 1600-1800, Local and Foreign Cultural Interactions. Kyoto University Press 2009, pp. 119-138
‘Chu Hai : China’s Real Pioneers in the Nanyang”, in Leo Suryadinata ed, Chinese Diaspora
Since Admiral Zheng He. Singapore: Chinese Heritage Centre 2007, pp. 103-112.
‘Ratu di antara para Raja, Ritual diplomatik di Batavia’ in K.Grijns, en Peter J.M. Nas eds, Jakarta Batavia, Esai Socio-Kultural. Jakarta: KITLV 2007, pp. 27-46. (zie no.62)
‘Tokugawa Japan and its lost Brethren in Southeast Asia’ in K. Fujita, N. Makino and M. Matsumoto (eds) , Dynamic Rim lands and Open Heartlands: Maritime Asia as a Site of Interactions. Osaka: Osaka University 2007, pp. 100-114.
‘The Eclipse of the Inibs: The Dutch Protestant Mission in 17th Century Taiwan and its
Persecution of Native Priestesses’ Yeh Chuen-rong, ed. History, Culture and Ethnicity,
Selected Papers from the International Conference on the Formosan Indigenous Peoples.
Taipei: Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines 2006. pp. 71-88.
‘Jakarta: Erberveld-monument, de nieuwe kleren van de koningin van het oosten’ in
Maarten Prak, Plaatsen van herinnering, Nederland in de zeventiende en achttiende eeuw.
Amsterdam: Bert Bakker 2006. pp. 390-399.
‘Zhongguo mengyan, yice sandui, liang ce zhanbai’ [The Chinese nightmare: a
withdrawal and two defeats] in Zhongguo haiyang fazhanshi lunwenji. Vol. 9 Nankang:
Academia Sinica 2005. pp.139-167.
‘Changes of Regime and Colonial State Formation in the Malay Archipelago, 1780-1800’, Asia Research Institute, Working Paper Series, No.41, Singapore: ARI National University of Singapore 2005.
‘Personal Encounters in Southeast Asia’ and ‘Dutch Settlements and Trading Centers’ in
Anna Jackson & Amin Jaffer eds, Encounters, the Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800,
London: V&A Publications 2004. pp. 134-141, pp. 170-175.
‘Eerste vingeroefeningen in handelsdiplomatie te Batavia, Pieter de Carpentier en het
Chinese gezantschap van 1624′ in Elsbeth Locher-Scholten & Peter Rietbergen eds, Hof en
Handel, Aziatische vorsten en de VOC 1620-1720. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij 2004. pp.15-34.
‘Wills, Widows and Witnesses: Executing Financials Dealings with the Nanyang – A glimpse
from the notebook of the Dutch Vice-Consul at Amoy, Carolus Franciscus Martinus de
Grijs’, in Ng Chin-keong & Wang Gungwu eds, Maritime China in Transition 1750-1850.
Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag 2004, pp.317-334.
‘Dutch Consular Representation on the Southeast Coast of China during the
Nineteenth century ‘in Evert Groenendijk ed, Sailing to the Pearl River, Dutch Enterprise
in South China 1600-2000, Guangzhou : Royal Netherlands Consulate General Guangzhou
2004, pp. 63-76.
‘Chinese in Batavia, Chinese Priests during the Tsingbing Festival, The Burning of
Twabakong , Sacrificial Ceremony during the Tsingbing Festival, Chinese militia, Wayang’
in Max de Bruijn and Remco Raben, The World of Jan Brandes, 1743-1808, Drawings of a Dutch
Traveller in Batavia, Ceylon, and Southern Africa. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam 2004, pp. 199-209.
‘China komt eraan’ , in thema nummer Het Rijk van het Midden, China en de buitenwereld 1500-
2004, Leidschrift, Historisch Tijdschrift, 18-3, 2004. pp. 7-17.
“One Hundred Weddings and Many More Funerals a Year: Chinese Civil Society in Batavia
at the End of the Eighteenth Century” in Leonard Blussé & Chen Menghong eds, The Archives
of the Kong Koan of Batavia,. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 8-28.
‘The Grand Inquisitor Inoue Chikugo no kami Masashige, Spin doctor of the Tokugawa
Bakufu’ in Bulletin of Portuguese Japanese Studies, Lisbon: Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar,
Universitade Nova de Lisboa, Vol 7, December 2003, pp. 23-43.
‘Bull in a China Shop, Pieter Nuyts in China en Japan (1627-1636)’ in L. Blussé ed, Around
and about Formosa, Essays in honor of Professor Ts’ao Yung-ho, Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc.2003.
pp. 95-110.
a) ‘Ontmoetingen en ontdekkingen’ in Vibeke Roeper en Boudewijn Walraven eds., De
Wereld van Hendrik Hamel, Nederland en Korea in de zeventiende eeuw, Uitgeverij Sun,
Amsterdam, pp. 15-28.
b) ‘Encounters and Discoveries, The Dutch Perception of the Far East in the Seventeenth
Century’ in Vibeke Roeper and Boudewijn Walraven eds, Hamel’s World, A Dutch-Korean
Encounter in the Seventeenth Century. Amsterdam: Sun Publishers 2003. pp. 15-28.
‘Een kras op de lei. Uitstervend Nederlands in China’, in Adriaan van Dis ed., Vrijtaal
special issue OPTIMA, 20-4 (2003), pp. 82-85.
‘From Hai-chin to Kaikin: The Impact of Traditional Chinese Border Policy on Tokugawa
Trade Policy and its Consequences for the Spatial Expansion of Japanese Enterprises in Early
Modern Times, 1600-1850′ in Chen Kuo-tung ed., Chinese Culture and Adjacent Nations.
Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 2003, pp. 173-196.
‘Kongkoan and Kongsi: Representations of Chinese Identity and Ethnicity in Early Modern
Southeast Asia’ in Leonard Blussé and Felipe Fernández-Armesto, eds., Shifting Communities
and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia, Studies in Overseas History 3, Leiden: CNWS 2003. pp. 93-106.
‘Een ander ‘kleyn hoopken’, Op zoek naar de tweeënveertig mannen van Arzon’ in Leo
Akveld, Willem Morzer Bruyns e.a. eds., In het Kielzog, Amsterdam: De Bataafse Leeuw
2003.pp. 302-316.
‘Sailing along the Wagenspoor, On the Sea-Road with the Dutch East India Company’in The
Low Countries, Arts and Society in Flanders and The Netherlands, (11) 2003, pp. 91-100.
‘De Formosaanse Proeftuyn der gereformeerde Zending’ in G.J. Schutte ed, Het Indische Sion,
De gereformeerde kerk onder de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie. Hilversum: Uitgeverij
Verloren 2003, pp. 189-200.
‘The Cave of the Black Spirits: Searching for a Vanished People’ in David Blundell ed.,
Austronesian Taiwan, Linguistics, History, Ethnology, and Prehistory. Berkeley: University of
California 2002. pp. 131-150.
- ‘Spitsvinnigghe warvogels. Vier juristen en de totstandkoming van de eerste politiewetten
in Nederlands-Indië’ in J.Th. Lindblad en Willem van der Molen red, Macht en majesteit,
Opstellen voor Cees Fasseur. Leiden: Semaian 2002. 147-167.
‘Amongst Feigned Friends and Declared Enemies’ in Solvi Sogner ed., Making Sense of
Global History. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget 2002. pp. 154-168,
Vier eeuwen VOC herdenken. Openbare lezing Ridderzaal 12 maart 2002.
‘Another Voice from the Past: the Dutch Occupation of P’eng-hu and the first Dutch
settlement on Taiwan between Myth and Reality’ in Transaction of the International
Symposium on the Image of Taiwan during the Dutch Period. Taipei: National Palace
Museum & Planning Bureau of Taiwan History 2001. pp. 48-64
‘De Chinese nachtmerrie, een terugtocht en twee nederlagen’ in Gerrit Knaap and Ger
Teitler eds., De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie tussen oorlog en diplomatie. Leiden:
KITLV Publishers 2002. pp.209-238.
‘Queen among kings, Diplomatic Ritual at Batavia’ in Kees Grijns and Peter J.M. Nas eds.,
Jakarta-Batavia. Leiden: KITLV Press Leiden 2000, pp.25-42.
‘Divesting a Myth: Seventeenth Century Dutch-Portuguese Rivalry in the Far East’, in
Anthony Disney and Emily Booth eds., Vasco da Gama and the Linking of Europe and Asia.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2000, pp. 387-402.
‘Van openheid naar geslotenheid, de vroege jaren op Hirado’ in L. Blussé, W. Remmelink, I.
Smits (eds), Bewogen Betrekkingen, 400 jaar Nederland-Japan. Utrecht: Teleac Publishers
2000.p. 13-32.
‘Veranderende tijden, een bekwame Chinese vrouw’ in Archipel , 6 (2000). pp. 25-28.
‘Communication no Fune, Nichiran no Kaiji-jijutsu oyobi Zosenjijutsu iten ni tsuite’, in
Hirado-shi shi kenkyu , 5 (2000). pp. 6-21
‘Chinese Century; The Eighteenth Century in the China Sea Region’ in Archipel 58 (1999).
pp. 107-129.
‘The Kongkoan or Chinese Council of Batavia’ in Zhuang Guotu ed., Ethnic Chinese at the
Turn of the Centuries’ . Fujian People’s Publishing House 1998. pp. 220-226.
‘De Grot van de zwarte geesten; op zoek naar een verdwenen volk’ in Tijdschrift voor
Geschiedenis 111 (1998), pp. 617-628.
‘Vessel of Communication: Some remarks about the restricted Transfer of Maritime Know-
how and Shipbuilding Technology between the Netherlands and Japan during the VOC
period’, in Transactions of the Symposium Culture and Technology of Sea and Ship: 400 Years
of History and the Next Century, Tokyo: Japan Institute of Navigation 1998. pp. 101- 114.
‘From Trading post to Legation Quarter’, in R.E. van Ditzhuyzen, A.E.Kersten eds., The
Foreign Ministry; 200 years, The Hague: Sdu Publishers 1998. pp. 165-188.
`China Overzee: Aard en omvang van Chinese migratie’ in Piet Emmer en Herman Obdeijn
eds., Het Paradijs is aan de Overzijde, International migratie en grenzen, Utrecht: Jan van
Arkel 1998. pp. 35-50.
`Theory and Practice of Railroad Building in China: The Cannibalization of the Lung-Hai
Railroad, 1920-1925′, Tokyo: Special Issue Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute, Vol.
VI(1996) , pp. 29-41.
The World Trade System of the VOC',Coen and the Founding of Batavia’ in Anthony Reid
ed., Early Modern History, Indonesian Heritage Series. Singapore: Archipelago Press 1996.
pp. 72-76.
`Van snaphanen en edelstenen. Briefwisselingen tussen de Hoge Regering te Batavia en het
Koninkrijk Siam, 1769-1809′ in C.A. Davids, W. Fritschy en L.A. van der Valk (red.)
Kapitaal,Ondernemerschap en beleid, Studies over economie en politiek in Nederland,
Europa en Azië van 1500 tot heden. Amsterdam: NEHA 1996. pp. 467-482.
`No Boats to China. The Dutch East India Company and the Changing Pattern of the China
Sea Trade, 1635-1690′, Modern Asian Studies 30-1 (1996), pp. 51-76.
`Het grote verzwijgen. Amy Tan en Maxine Hong Kingston als vertolksters van de Chinese
diaspora-ervaring’ in Theo D’Haen, ed., Weer-werk, schrijven en terugschrijven in koloniale
_ _en postkoloniale literaturen, Leiden: Semaian 1996, pp. 136-148.
`The Vicissitudes of Maritime Trade: Letters from the Ocean Hang Merchant, Li Kunhe, to the
Dutch Authorities in Batavia (1803-09)’ Anthony Reid ed., Sojourners and Settlers, Histories
of Southeast Asia and the Chinese, Allen & Unwin 1996., St Leonards, pp. 148-163.
(With Ts’ao Yung-ho) `Hsiao Liu Ch’iu yüan-chu-min ti hsiao-shih’ (The genocide of the
native people of Hsiao Liu-Ch’iu) in Fan Ying-hai ed., P’ing Pu Yen-chiu lun-wen-chi (Essays
on the Plains Tribes), Nankang: Academia Sinica 1995. pp. 413-444.
`Ruling out Change: Institutional impediments of the transfer of technology in ship
construction and design in the Far East’ (ps. Bao Leshi), Itinerario XIX (1995-3).
`Chinezen in de Archipel’, Weerzien met Indië, Vol. 23, Zwolle: Waanders 1995. pp. 539-559.
`Retribution and Remorse; The Interaction between the Administration and the Protestant
Mission in Early Colonial Formosa’, in G. Prakash (ed.), After Colonialism. Imperial Histories
and Postcolonial Displacements, Princeton: Princeton U.P., 1994, pp. 153-182.
`Towards a reconstruction of the Zeelandia Castle Archives: inventorization of Dutch
archival documents about seventeenth century Taiwan’, in Taiwan Shih-liao kuo-chi
hsüeh-shuyenchiu-hui lun-wen chi. Taipei : 1994 . 22 pp.
`Lun Zheng Zhilong di qu-ji’ (On the rise of Cheng Chih-lung) Fujian shizhi 7 (1994) , 11
pp.
`Chui-hsün pei yi-wang ti T’aiwan shih-hui chih pen-yüan’, (In Search of the Roots of a
Forgotten Taiwanese Society) in Tang Tai (Contemporary Monthly), Vol. 103, 1994, 22 pp.
`Pieter Nuyts (1598-1655): Een Hulsterse burgemeester uit het Verre Oosten’ in Zeeuws
_ _Tijdschrift, (1993) 43-6, pp. 234-241.
(With Ank Merens) `Nuggets from the Goldmines: three Tales of the Takang kongsi of West
Kalimantan’ in L. Blussé and H. Zurndorfer (eds.) Conflict and accommodation: Religion,
Thought and Society in Early Modern East Asia, Leiden: Brill Publishers 1993.. pp. 274-321.
`Dancing to the Tune: How the Dutch experienced Nagasaki, 1680-1730, in The American
Asian Review, Vol. IX-4 (1991), pp. 29-44.
`Fuchienese Commercial Expansion into the Nanyang as mirrored in the Tung Hsi Yang K’ao
in Review of Culture, (1991) 13-14, pp. 140-149.
`Inleiding bij Johan Niehoffs Gezantschap aan den Tartarischen Cham’ appendix to Vol. III in
the Hoogtepunten der Maritieme geschiedschrijving series, Franeker: Van Wijnen 1991, pp.
1-8.
`In Praise of Commodities: an Essay on the Crosscultural Trade in Edible Bird’s nests’ in: R.
Ptak and D. Rothermund eds., Emporia, Commodities and Entrepreneurs in Asian Maritime
Trade, ca. 1400-1750, Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, pp. 317-335.
(With Jan Oosterhoff and Ton Vermeulen) `Chinese Trade with Batavia in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries: A Preliminary Report’ in Karl Reinhold Haellquist ed., Asian
Trade Routes, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, Studies on Asian Topics 13, Curzon
Press 1991, London, pp. 231-245.
`The Role of the Indonesian Chinese in the shaping of Modern Indonesian Life’, in Indonesia,
special issue on the Chinese in Indonesia, Cornell University 1991, Ithaca, pp. 1-11.
`De mens, de mier en de ekster, Over verzamelgedrag en de oriëntalistiek in de late
Verlichting’ in: F. Lequin ed., Voordrachten gehouden ter gelegenheid van de presentatie van
‘The Private Correspondence of Isaac Titsingh, Amsterdam 1990, pp. 6-10.
`A View from the Verandah”; The ‘Colonial Situation’ as Mirrored in the Fiction of Colonial
Civil Servants’ in Journal of the Japan Netherlands Institute, Vol. II (1990), pp. 131-150.
`Vertellingen van de Voorgalerei’ in Theo d’Haen ed., Herinnering, Herkomst, Herschrijven,
Koloniale en post-koloniale literatuur, Leiden 1990, pp. 45-66.
`Minnan-jen or Cosmopolitan? The Rise of Cheng Chihlung alias Nicolas Iquan’ in E.
Vermeer ed., Development and Decline of Fukien province in the 17th and 18th Centuries,
Leiden 1990, pp. 245-269.
`Doctor at Sea: Chou Mei-yeh’s voyage to the West (1710-1711)’ in Erica de Poorter (ed.), As
the Twig is bent… Essays in honour of Frits Vos, Amsterdam 1990 pp. 7-30.
`Pioneers or Cattle for the Slaughterhouse? A Rejoinder to A.R.T. Kemasang’ in B.K.I. 145-
2/3, (1989). pp. 351-58.
`Of Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Leiden University’s Early Sinologists (1853-
1911)’ in W. Otterspeer (ed.), Leiden Oriental Connections 1850-1940, Leiden: Brill 1989, pp.
317-353. ( also revised and updated version in Wilt L. Idema ed, Chinese Studies in the Netherlands. Past, Present and Future. Leiden: Brill 2014. pp. 27-68.
`The Run to the Coast; English and Dutch Expansion in Asia during the ancien régime’ in
Itinerario 1988, XII-1, pp. 195-214.
`Brief Encounter at Macao’ in (Special issue: Essays dedicated to Charles Boxer), Modern
Asian Studies 22-3 (1988) , pp. 647-663.
(With George Winius) ‘The Origin and rhythm of Dutch Aggression against the Estado da India, 1601-1661’, in Teotonio R. de Souza ed, Indo-Portuguese History, Old Issues, New Questions. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company 1985, 73-83.
`An Insane Administration and an Unsanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and
Batavia (1619-1799)’ in Robert Ross and Gerard J. Telkamp, eds., Colonial Cities, Essays on
Urbanism in a Colonial Context, Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff 1985, pp. 65-86. (Also
translated into Japanese.)
`Justus Schouten en de Japanse gijzeling’ in Nederlandse Historische Bronnen (1985) 5, pp.
69-110.
`Testament to a Towkay: Jan Con, Batavia and the Dutch China Trade’ in R. Ross and G.D.
Winius eds., All of one Company: Essays on VOC History presented to Prof. dr. M.A.P.
Meilink-Roelofsz. Utrecht: Hess 1985. pp. 3-41. (Also translated into Chinese.)
Leonard Blussé and Marius Roessingh, `A Visit to the Past: Soulang, A Formosan Village
anno 1623′ in Archipel 27 (1984), pp. 63-80.
`Labour takes Root. Mobilization and Immobilization of Javanese Rural Society under the
Cultivation System’ in Itinerario 8-1 (1984), pp. 77-117.
`Paradise Lost: a seventeenth century account of Pattani’ in Historical Documents and Literary
Evidence: International Conference on Thai Studies, Bangkok. 1984. 17 pp.
`Dutch Protestant Missionaries as Protagonists of the Territorial Expansion of the VOC on
Formosa’ in D. Kooiman ed., Conversion, Competition and Conflict, Amsterdam: VU
Uitgeverij 1984, pp. 155-184.
`The Caryatids of 17th Century Batavia: Reproduction, Religion and Acculturation under the
VOC’ in Itinerario, 7-1 (1983) , pp. 57-85.
`The VOC as Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Stereotypes and Social Engineering on the China Coast’
in W.L. Idema ed., Leyden Studies in Sinology, Leiden Brill 1981., pp. 87-105.
`Batavia, 1619-1740: The Rise and Fall of a Chinese Colonial Town’ in Journal of Southeast
Asian Studies, 12-1 (1981), pp. 159-178. (Also translated into Chinese and Japanese.)
`Le ‘Modern World System’ et l’Extrême Orient, plaidoyer pour un seizième siècle négligé’ in
Itinerario 4-1 (1980) , pp. 93-103.
`A Baedeker to the Rijksarchief’ in Itinerario 4-2 (1980). pp. 24-28.
`Chinese Trade to Batavia during the days of the VOC’ in Archipel 18 (1979) , pp. 195-213.
(Also published in Chinese.)
`Trojan Horse of Lead: the Picis in Early 17th Century Java’ in F. van Anrooy ed., Between
People and Statistics. Essays on Modern Indonesian History, Martinus Nijhoff 1979., The
Hague, pp. 33-48.
`The Source Publication of the Daghregisters (Journals) of Zeelandia Castle at Taiwan
(Formosa) 1629-1662: an Interim Report’ in Understanding Modern China, Problems and
Methods, Proceedings XXVI Conference of Chinese Studies Ortisei Sept. 3-9, 1978. Roma,
pp. 204-212.
`Japanese Historiography and European Sources’ in P.C. Emmer and H.L. Wesseling eds.,
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