Editorial work for journals and occasional publication series:
| 1977-1982 | Founding editor Itinerario (with George Winius) |
| 1983-1993 | Consulting editor Itinerario |
| 1994-1997 | Editor-in-chief Itinerario |
| 1986-2010 | Co-Editor The Deshima Dagregisters (Diaries) |
| Marginalia for the period 1680-1780 | |
| Vol 1, 1680-1690 | |
| Vol 2, 1690-1700 | |
| Vol 3, 1700-1710 | |
| Vol 4, 1710-1720 | |
| Vol 5, 1730-1740 | |
| Vol 6, 1740-1750 | |
| Vol 7, 1750-1760 | |
| Vol 8, 1760-1770 | |
| Extended version for the following periods: | |
| Vol 9, 1770-1790 (and co-author) | |
| Vol 10, 1790-1800 (and co-author) | |
| Vol.11, 1640-1650 (and co-author) | |
| Vol.12, 1650-1660 (and co-author) | |
| Vol.13, 1660-1670 (and co-author) | |
| 1986- | Editor Intercontinenta Occasional Publications Series |
| 1987- | Corresponding editor Modern Asian Studies |
| 1989-1997 | Member editorial board Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis |
| 2000 – 2007 | Editor Studies in Overseas History series, produced by the Research Cluster History of European Expansion and Global Interaction of the CNWS Leiden University. |
| Vol. 1. Ernst van Veen, Decay or Defeat? An Inquiry into the Portuguese Decline in Asia, 1580-1645. Leiden, 2000 (ISBN 90-5789-051-8). Price (excl. postage/handling): Euro 27.23. | |
| Vol. 2. Frans-Paul van der Putten, Corporate Behaviour and Political Risk: Dutch Companies in China 1903-1941. Leiden 2001 (ISBN 90-5789-061-5). Price (excl. postage/handling): Euro 24.96. | |
| Vol. 3. Leonard Blussé and Felipe Fernández-Armesto (eds.), Shifting Communities and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia. Leiden 2002 (ISBN 90-5789-082-8). Price (excl. postage/handling): Euro 30.00. | |
| Vol. 4. Peer Vries, Via Peking back to Manchester: Britain, the Industrial Revolution, and China. Leiden 2003 (ISBN 90-5789-084-4). Price (excl. postage/handling): Euro 17.00. | |
| Vol. 5. Martha Chaiklin, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture. The influence of European Material Culture oin Japan, 1700-1850. Leiden 2003 (ISBN 90-5789-086-0) Price (excl. postage/handling): Euro 30.00. | |
| Vol. 6. Robert van Niel, Java’s Northeast Coast 1740-1840. A Study in Colonial Encroachment and Dominance, Leiden 2005 ( ISBN 90-5789-111-5) Price (excl. postage/handling): Euro 40.00. | |
| Vol. 7. Ernst van Veen en Leonard Blussé, Rivalry and Conflict, European Traders and Asian Trading Networks in the 16th and 17th Centuries. Leiden 2005, (ISBN 90-5789-104-2) Price (excl. postage/handling): Euro 35.00. | |
| Vol. 8. Els M. Jacobs, Merchant in Asia, The Trade of the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century, Leiden 2006 (ISBN 90-5789-109-3) | |
| Vol. 9. Suzanne Moon, Technology and Ethical Idealism, A History of Development in the Netherlands East Indies, Leiden 2007 (ISBN 978-90-5789-156-4) | |
| 2000-15 | Co-Editor Gong An Bu公案簿 (Minutes of the Board Meetings of the Chinese Council of Batavia) series. |
| Vol. 1, 1787-1791 | |
| Vol. 2, 1824-1829 | |
| Vol. 3, 1832-1843 | |
| Vol. 4, 1844-1846 | |
| Vol. 5, 1846-1848 | |
| Vol. 6, 1849-1856 | |
| Vol. 7, 1850-1851 | |
| Vol. 8, 1852-1854 | |
| Vol. 9, 1854-1856 | |
| Vol. 10 1857-1865 | |
| Vol. 11 1865-1868 | |
| Vol. 12 1869-1873 2 vols | |
| Vol.13 1873-1884 | |
| Vol.14 1889-1913 | |
| Vol.15 1913-1920 | |
| 2006-2013 | Editor (with H.E. Niemeijer, vols.1-4 and with Cynthia Viallé vols. 5- 13) Tanap Monographs on the History of Asian-European Interaction. Brill, Leiden / Boston. |
| Russel Viljoen, Jan Paerl, a Khoikhoi in Cape Colonial Society 1761-1851. 2006 | |
| Ota Atsushi, Changes of Regime and Social Dynamics in West Java 2006. | |
| Kwee Hui Kian, The Political Economy of Java’s Northeast Coast. c. 1740-1800. 2006 | |
| Ryuto Shimada, The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century. 2006 | |
| Hoang Anh Tuan, Silk for Silver: Dutch-Vietnamese Relations, 1637-1700. TANAP vol 5, Brill, Leiden / Boston 2007 | |
| Yong Liu, Yong Liu, The Dutch East India Company’s Tea Trade with China, 1757-1781. TANAP vol 6, Brill, Leiden / Boston 2007 | |
| Alicia Schrikker, Dutch and British Colonial Intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815. 2007 | |
| Bhawan Ruangsilp, Dutch East India Company Merchants at the Court of Ayutthaya: Dutch Perceptions of the Thai Kingdom, c. 1604-1765. 2007 | |
| Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri, The Adaptable Peasant: Agrarian Society in Western Sri Lanka under Dutch Rule, 1740-1800, 2007 | |
| Chiu Hsin-hui, The Colonial ‘Civilising Process’ in Dutch Formosa, 1624-1662. 2008.. | |
| Ghulam A. Nadri, Eighteenth Century Gujarat: The Dynamics of its Political Economy, 1750-1800. 2008 | |
| Muridan Widjojo, The Revolt of Prince Nuku, Cross-cultural Alliance making in Maluku, c. 1780-1810. 2008 | |
| (co-editor with dr.H. s’ Jacob) Anjana Singh, Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830. The social condition of a Dutch community in an Indian milieu. 2009. | |
| Binu John Mailaparambil, Lords of the Sea, The Ali Rajas of Cannanore and the Political Economy of Malabar, 1663-1723. 2012. | |
| Chris Nierstrasz, In the Shadow of the Company. The Dutch East India Company and its Servants in the Period of its Decline, 1740-1796. 2012. | |
| Cheng Wei-chung, War, Trade and Piracy in the China Seas, 1622-1683. 2013 |
Editorial work for journals and occasional publication series:
| 1984-2011 | Organizer and Manager IGEER (Leiden University) – Nanyang Re¬search Institute (Xiamen University) cooperation programme |
| 1984-1989 | Executive secretary of The Leiden-Cambridge-Yogyakarta-Delhi project for the comparative study of India and Indonesia four congresses and four collections of papers (Brill Publishers) |
| 1990-1996 | Organizing secretary of The Transfer of Science and Technology be¬tween Asia and Europe since the Age of Vasco da Gama Project (Participating institutions: Universities of Cambridge, Yogyakarta, Delhi, Beijing, Kyoto, Istanbul and Leiden). Three congresses (June 1991, Amsterdam, and November 1992, Kyoto, October 1994, Istanbul) |
| 1991-1994 | Director China and the Nanyang Project, in coopera¬tion with National Taiwan University and Xiamen Universi¬ty. Financed by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan.¬ (See Fundraising activities) This project aimed to train five historians from Taiwan and China in the use of Dutch archival documents for the writing of Asian history. All participants except one have now obtained their degree. |
| 1992-1993 | Co-organizer seminar Asia in the eighteenth century, in memori¬am Jacob van Leur, NIAS Research Institute, Wasse¬naar, The Netherlands |
| 1994-1998 | Director History of Taiwan’s Aborigines Project, fun¬ded by the Shun Ye Foundation, Taiwan. (See Fundraising activities) |
| 1998-2006 | Co-director Towards a New Age of Partnership (TANAP) programme, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education. |
| 2000-2001 | Coordinator Research Group on Ethnic Identity in Asia in Early Modern Times, NIAS Research Institute, Wassenaar, The Netherlands. |
| 2006-2010 | Director Encountering a Common Past in Asia (ENCOMPASS) Asian-European Training program funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education |
| 2007-2009 | Co-organizer Comparative Study Program on Nagasaki and Guangzhou ( together with Prof. dr. Haneda Masashi), Tokyo University. |
Supervision Doctoral Theses
- With Prof. Dr. K. Schipper co-promotor: Dr. Cheng Shaogang, De VOC en Formosa, 1624-1662, 12 December 1995.
- With Prof. Dr. P.W. Klein co-promotor: Dr. Remco Raben, Batavia and Colombo, The Ethnic and Spatial Order of Two Colonial Cities, 1600-1800, 28 March 1996.
- Promotor: Dr. Yuan Bingling, Chinese Democracies, a Study of the Kongsis of West Borneo (1776-1884), 1 December 1998.
- Promotor: Dr. M.T.H. Govaars-Tjia, Hollands onderwijs in een koloniale samenleving: de Chinese ervaring in Indonesië. 1900-1942, Uitgeverij de Vijver, 16 December 1999.
- Promotor: Dr. E. van Veen, Decay or Defeat? An inquiry into the Portuguese decline in Asia 1580-1645 , CNWS Leiden University Publishers, 6 December 2000.
- Promotor with Prof. Dr. A. E. Kersten: Dr. F.P. van der Putten, Corporate Behaviour and Political Risk, Dutch Companies in China, 1913-1941 , CNWS Leiden University Publishers, 23 May 2001.
- Promotor: Dr. B. de Prins, Voor Keizer en Koning, Leonard du Bus de Gisignies 1780-1849, Commissaris-Generaal van Nederlands-Indië, Uitgeverij Balans (Amsterdam), 24 april 2002.
- Promotor: Dr. A.G. de Roever, De jacht op Sandelhout, De VOC en de tweedeling van Timor in de zeventiende eeuw, Walburg Pers (Zutphen), 12 december 2002.
- Promotor with Prof. Dr. W.J. Boot: Dr. Martha Chaiklin, Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture, The influence of European Material Culture on Japan, 1700-1850. Studies In Overseas History 5, CNWS Press, Leiden, 3 June 2003.
- Promotor with Prof. Dr. H. Beukers: Dr. Herman Jan Moeshart, Een miskend geneesheer, Dr. J.K. van den Broek en de overdracht van kennis van westerse technologie in Japan, 1853-1857. De Bataafse Leeuw, Amsterdam, 3 juni 2003.
- Promotor with Dr. R.J. Ross: Dr. Russel Viljoen, “Land of our Forefathers” – Jan Paerl: A Khoikhoi Prophet in Cape Colonial Society, 1761-1851, 4 December 2003.
- Promotor with Dr. J.Th.Lindblad: Ryuto Shimada, The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century, 14 December 2005.
- Promotor: Dr. Harry Knipschild, Ferdinand Hamer, 1840-1900.Missiepionier en martelaar in China. Een nieuwe kijk op de missiemethode van de Scheutisten in het noorden van China, en de reactie daarop van de Chinezen, 14 December 2005.
- Promotor with Prof. Dr. P. Boomgaard: Dr. Kwee Hui Kian, The Political Economy of Java’s Northeast Coast, c.1740-1800, Elite Synergy, 15 December 2005.
- Promotor with Dr. F. Colombijn: Dr. Atsushi Ota, Changes of Regime and Social Dynamics in West Java, Society, State and the Outer World of Banten, 1750-1830, 15 December 2005.
- Promotor with Dr. Lodewijk Wagenaar: Alicia Schrikker, Dutch and British colonial intervention in Sri Lanka, 1780-1815: Expansion and Reform. 30 November 2006. (cum laude)
- Promotor: Yong Liu, Golden Years: The Chinese Tea Trade of the Dutch East India Company, 1757-1781, 6 December 2006.
- Promotor with Prof. dr. F.S. Gaastra, Hoang Anh Tuan, The Dutch East India Company in Tonkin: Political and Commercial Relations, 1637-1700. 7 December 2006.
- Promotor with Prof. dr. Peter Rietbergen (Nijmegen): Bhawan Ruangsilp, Perception and Practice: The VOC and the Court Culture of Ayutthaya in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 7 March 2007.
- Promotor with Dr. Lodewijk Wagenaar: Nirmal Devasiri, Changes in the Peasant Agriculture in the Southern and Western Ceylon in the Mid-eighteenth century under the VOC rule, 4 April 2007.
- Promotor: Ch’iu Hsin-hui, Entangled Encounters: ‘The Formosans’ and the Dutch Colonial Project (1624-1662), 10 May 2007.
- Promotor with Dr. Gerrit Knaap, Muridan Satrio Widjojo, Cross-Cultural Alliance-Making and Local Resistance in Maluku during the Revolt of Prince Nuku, c. 1780-1810, 12 September 2007.
- Promotor with Dr. J.J.L. Gommans: Binu John Parambil, The Ali Rajas of Cannanore: Status at the Interface of Commercial and Political Expansion (1663-1723), 12 December 2007.
- Promotor with Prof. dr. Peter Boomgaard,: Sri Margana, Java’s Last Frontier, The Struggle for Hegemony of Blambangan,.1763¬–1813, 13 December 2007.
- Promotor with dr. A.A.P. Francken: A. Pos, Het paviljoen van porselein: Nederlandse literaire Chinoiserie en het westerse beeld van China, 1250-2007 , 24 June 2008.
- Promotor: Kogure Minori, National Prestige and Economic Interest. Dutch Policy towards Japan 1850-1863,. 25 September 2008.
- Promotor: W. Hugenholtz, De landrente belasting op Java 1812-1920, 25 September 2008.
- Promotor with Prof. dr. F.S. Gaastra: Chr. Nierstrasz, The Decline of the VOC; the relationship between Company and servant. 5 November 2008.
- Promotor: Chen Menghong, De Chinese gemeenschap van Batavia, 1843-1865:Een onderzoek naar het Kong Koan-archief..10 december 2009
- Promotor: Menno Witteveen, Antonio van Diemen, De opkomst van de VOC in Azië. March 10 2011.
- Promotor:Bondan Kanumoyoso, Beyond the City Wall: Society and Economic Development in the Ommelanden of Batavia, 1684-1740. 1 June 2011.
- Promotor: Agus Suwignyo, The Breach in the Dike: Regime Change and the Standardization of aPublic Primary School Teacher Training in Indonesia, 1893-1969. 3 May 2012.
- Promotor with Prof. dr. L.L. Roberts: Andreas Weber, Hybrid Ambitions. Science, Governance, and Empire in the Career of Caspar G.C. Reinwardt (1773-1854). 8 May 2012.
- Promotor with Prof.dr. Heleen Murre-van den Berg: Ellen Cai Xiang-yü, Christianity and Gender in South-East China: TheChaozhou missions(1849-1949). 10 May 2012
- Promotor: Cheng Wei-chung , War, Trade and Piracy in the China Seas (1622-1683). 12 June 2012.
- Promotor with Dr. Egbert Koops: Frederic Delano Grant, The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guarantee System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933. 24 October 2012.
- Promotor with Prof. dr. J.J.L. Gommans: Murari Kumar Jha, The Political Economy of the Ganga River; Highway of State Formation in Mughal India, c.1600-1800. 4 June 2013.
- Promotor with Dr. J.L.L. Tilanus: Sun Jing, The Illusion of Verisimilitude, Johan Nieuhof’s Images of China. 6 June 2013.
- Promotor with dr. Leo Douw: Monique Erkelens, The Decline of the Chinese Council of Batavia: The Loss of Prestige and Authority of the Traditional Elites amongst Chinese Community between 1900-42. 15 October 2013.
- Promotor with Dr. Thomas Lindblad: Pham Van Thuy, Beyond Political Skin: Convergent Paths to an Independen National Economy in Indonesia and Vietnam. 14 May 2014.
- Promotor with Dr. Thomas Lindblad: Farabi Fakih:The Rise of the Managerial State in Indonesia: Institutional Transition during the Early Independence Period.1950-1965. 14 May 2014
- Promotor: P.N. Kuiper, The early Dutch Sinologists, a Study of their training in Holland and China and their functions in the Netherlands Indies (1854-1900). 16 februari 2016.
- Promotor C. Feddersen, Principled Pragmatism, VOC Interaction with Makassar 1637-68 and the Nature of Company Diplomacy. 29 September 2016.