The Chinese Annals of Batavia, the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Other Stories (1610-1795) / / translated, edited, and annotated by Leonard Blusse, Nie Dening.

• TeilnehmendeR: Blussé, Leonard, 1946-; Dening, Nie.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: European Expansion and Indigenous Response 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 pages).

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 This historical document and a selection of other Chinese contemporary sources throw new light on a tragic event in the history of Southeast Asia's overseas Chinese: the massacre of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.

Table of Contents

Intro; Contents; General Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Part 1 Introductory Material; Chapter 1 A Historical Sketch of Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Chapter 2 A Chinese Urban Society in the Tropics; Chapter 3 Chinese Sources for the History of the Chinese Community in Batavia; Chapter 4 Critical Comments on the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji and Its Genesis; Chapter 5 A Diachronic Overview of the Contents of the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji; Chapter 6 Editorial Notes on the Sources of the Kai Ba Lidai Shiji; Part 2 The Chinese Annals of Batavia.