The Early Dutch Sinologists (1854-1900)
The Early Dutch Sinologists (1854-1900)

Author: Koos (P.N.) Kuiper

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-10

Total Pages: 1206

ISBN-13: 9004339639

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In The Early Dutch Sinologists Koos Kuiper gives a detailed account of the studies and work of the 24 Dutchmen trained as “interpreters” for the Netherlands Indies before 1900. Most began studying at Leiden University, then went to Amoy to study southern Chinese dialects. Their main functions were translating Dutch law into Chinese, advising the courts on Chinese law and checking Chinese accounts books, later also regulating coolie affairs. Actually their services were not always appreciated and there was not enough work for them; later many pursued other careers in the Indies administration or in scholarship. This study also analyses the three dictionaries they compiled. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it gives a fascinating picture of personal cross-cultural contacts.

Dutch Puritanism
Dutch Puritanism

Author: Keith L. Sprunger

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 1532609329

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Keith L. Sprunger is Oswald H. Wedel Professor of History Emeritus at Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas. His main scholarly interests are seventeenth-century English and Dutch Puritanism, the history of printing, Mennonite history, oral history, and historic preservation. Publications include The Learned Doctor William Ames (1972), Dutch Puritanism (1982), Trumpets from the Tower (1994), and Bethel College of Kansas 1887-2012 (2012). He enjoys collecting antiquarian books and historical postcards.

The Man Who Made Vermeers
The Man Who Made Vermeers

Author: Jonathan Lopez

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0547247842

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It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering in mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on never-before-seen documents from dozens of archives to write a revelatory new biography of the world's most famous forger. Neither unappreciated artist nor antifascist hero, Van Meegeren emerges as an ingenious, dyed-in-the-wool crook--a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush. Lopez explores a network of illicit commerce that operated across Europe: Not only was Van Meegeren a key player in that high-stakes game in the 1920s and '30s, landing fakes with famous collectors such as Andrew Mellon, but he and his associates later cashed in on the Nazi occupation. The Man Who Made Vermeers is a long-overdue unvarnishing of Van Meegeren's legend and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.

Silenced Voices
Silenced Voices

Author: Inez Hollander

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0896802698

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Like a number of Netherlanders in the post-World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware of her family's connections with its Dutch colonial past, including a Creole great-grandmother. For the most part, such personal stories have been, if not entirely silenced, at least only whispered about in Holland, where society has remained uncomfortable with many aspects of the country's relationship with its colonial empire. Unlike the majority of memoirs that are soaked in nostalgia for tempo dulu, Hollander's story sets out to come to grips with her family's past by weaving together personal records with historical and literary accounts of the period. She seeks not merely to locate and preserve family memories, but also to test them against a more disinterested historical record. Hers is a complicated and sometimes painful personal journey of realization, unusually mindful of the ways in which past memories and present considerations can be intermingled when we seek to understand a difficult past. Silenced Voices is an important contribution to the literature on how Dutch society has dealt with its recent colonial history.

Onze Vestiging in Atjeh: Critisch Beschreven
Onze Vestiging in Atjeh: Critisch Beschreven

Author: George Frederik Willem Borel

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2019-02-25

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780469651548

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