In The Chinese Annals of Batavia Leonard Blussé and Nie Dening open up a veritable treasure trove of Chinese archival sources about the autonomous history of the Chinese community of Batavia.
English translation of the marginalia, or marginal notes, that were added to the text of theDeshima Diaries diaries from the 1670's onwards in order to provide the Dutch chief of Deshima (Dutch East I
