This collection of essays, in honour of Erik Zurcher, provides new information on various aspects of intellectual and social development in China, Japan, and Korea from approximately 1400 to 1800.
Leonard Blussé, doctorate (1986) Leiden University, is the author of Strange Company: Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women and the Dutch in VOC Batavia (1986) and various articles on Asian trade. He has taught East Asian and Southeast Asian history at Leiden since 1977. He is currently secretary of the Research Institute for the History of European Expansion at Leiden University.Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Ph.D. (1977) in History, University of California, Berkeley, has taught Chinese history at the Sinologisch Instituut, Leiden University since 1978. She is the author of Change and Continuity in Chinese Local History: The Development of Hui-chou Prefecture 800-1800 (Brill, 1989), and is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.
