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Education and Career
Study : Far Eastern languages and cultures
Dissertation: Strange company, Chinese
settlers, mestizo women and the
Dutch in VOC Batavia
Inaugural : January 8 1999
lecture Among feigned Friends and
Declared Enemies
Subject : Asian-European relations
Inspiration
I try to build bridges. Privileged to have been educated in Far Eastern languages and cultures in Holland, China and Japan, I have been struck by how comparatively little effort is being made by Western and Asian colleagues in the historical study of global interaction in early modern time to combine or confront Asian sources with the wealth of European archival sources from the East India Company archives on the subject. Western scholars with no background in Asian studies tend to stick to the western sources they can read and the same goes mutatis mutandis for Asian scholars who mostly devote their careers to dissecting the rich heritage from their own cultural traditions. Ironically, many Western Asianists also tend to limit themselves to the sources in the Eastern languages which they often have mastered with admirable zeal and success. As a result, all kinds of paradigms wax and wane that on close scrutiny and comparison of the various sources, turn out to be highly contentious, if not utterly spurious. During my academic career it has been my aim to select relevant archival sources (mainly Dutch and Chinese) and make them available to everyone interested in Asian-European history by editing or translating them. Moreover, I am also teaching young (often Asian) scholars the skills to carry out such archival cross-cultural research. Leiden University with its long tradition in Asian and European studies and its wealth of documentary holdings would seem the perfect place to do so.
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Honors
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Publications
Major Publications
- Strange Company (1986)
- Tribuut aan China (1989)
- The Deshima Marginalia 11 vol. (1986-2000)
- Bitters Bruid. Een koloniaal huwelijksdrama in de Gouden Eeuw (1997)
- Badaweiya Huaren yu Zhong-ho maoyi (The Chinese of Batavia and Sino-Dutch Trade) (1997) Books pulblished since 2000
2000
L. Blussé, W. Milde and Ts'ao Ying-ho eds, De Dagregisters van het Kasteel Zeelandia, Taiwan, Vol. IV: 1655-1662 (RGP Grote Serie 241) Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 's-Gravenhage, 754 pp.
a) L. Blussé, W. Remmelink, I. Smits (eds),
Bridging the Divide, 400 years of Dutch-Japanese Relations, TELEAC Publishers, Utrecht. 288 pp.
b) (Dutch version) Bewogen Betrekkingen. , TELEAC Publishers
c) Japanese version: Nichiran Koryu yonhyaku-nen no rekishi to tenbo , Nichiran Kyokai Publishers, Tokyo
Retour Amoy, Anny Tan – Een vrouwenleven in Indonesië, Nederland en China, Balans Publishers, Amsterdam. 368 pp. (Herdruk in Rainbow Pockets , 2002)
Rosenkrieg, Ein Scheidungsdrama um Besitz, Macht und Freiheit im 17.Jahrhundert , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt. 219 pp. (German edition Bitters Bruid see 21)
L.Blussé and N. Everts, The Formosan Encounter, Notes on Formosan Aboriginal Society 1636-1646, Vol. II, Shung Ye Museum of Aborigines, Taipei 610 pp.
2001
L. Blussé and C. Viallé, The Deshima Daghregisters, 1640-1650, Vol. 10, Intercontinenta Series XXII, Leiden.
2002
L. Blussé and I. Ooms, Kennis en Compagnie, De Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie en de moderne wetenschap, Balans Publishers, Amsterdam. 191 pp.
Bitter Bonds, A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century, Markus Wiener Publishers, Princeton, N.J. 194pp.
L. Blussé and Wu Fengbin, Shiba shiji-mo Badaweiya Tangrenshihui (The Chinese Community of Batavia at the End of the Eighteenth Century, Xiamen University Press, 409 pp.
L. Blussé and Wu Fengbin, Gongan bu, Bacheng huaren Gongguan Dangan Gong An Bu –Minutes of the Board Meetings of the Chinese Council) Vol. 1, Xiamen University Press, 424pp.
2003
L .Blussé and F. Fernández-Armesto, eds, Shifting Communities and Identity Formation in Early Modern Asia, Studies in Overseas History Vol.3, CNWS Publishers, Leiden, 218 pp.
L. Blussé ed , Around and About Formosa, Essays in honor of Professor Ts’ao Yung-ho, SMC Publishing Inc., Taipei, Taiwan. 336 pp.
2004
Leonard Blussé, Cynthia Viallé, Willem Remmelink, Isabel van Dalen eds., The Deshima Diaries, Marginalia 1740-1800, Japan Netherlands Institute, Tokyo 2004, 898pp.
2008
Blusse, Leonard. 2008, Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Massechusetts. Harvard University Press.
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