Chiung-yi Chiu

Between Segregation and Permeability: The VOC’s Spatial Dilemma in Zeelandia Facing External Actors and Intervening Groups (1624–1662)

Abstract This study re-evaluates the “dual city” model through the case of the VOC’s Zeelandia in the seventeenth century. It argues that the settlement’s spatial order was crucially shaped not only by Dutch-indigenous relations but also by an external force: Chinese pirate-merch...