Pride and Prejudice
The Role of Policy and Perception Creation in the Chinese Revolt of 1652 on Dutch Formosa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11282149 |
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| Authors | Marné Strydom (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 17-36 |
| Publication date | 2003-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Itinerario (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-1153 • E-ISSN: 2041-2827 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0165115300020519 |
| OpenAlex | W2206315925 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
The events of September 1652 on the island of Formosa were one of the bloodiest chapters in the history of Dutch management of the island, and could arguably be viewed as one of the most severe suppressions of a rebellious group in the seventeenth century. The unexpected, ill-prepared uprising of thousands of frustrated, angry and impoverished Chinese farmers and field hands against Dutch colonial management were successfully, yet in the most severe and savage way, suppressed through a military collaboration between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the local Aborigines of the island. In total some 3,000 Chinese residents of the island were killed, the ‘hacked-off’ head of the leader ‘displayed on a stake [...] to frighten the Chinese as a sign of victory over those dastardly traitors’, while three of his lieutenants were tortured to death by Company officials in an effort to extract confessions and information from them. Indeed severe action towards a section of the Formosan colonial society that was primarily responsible for the economic success of the Dutch settlement enterprise
Ancient history · Colonialism · Economic history · Economics · Political science · Politics · Prejudice (legal term · Pride · Settlement (finance · Sign (mathematics · Victory · Asian Studies and History · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philippine History and Culture
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Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries
The Christian Century in Japan, 1549-1650
Pepper, Guns, and Parleys
Political Spectacle and Colonial Rule
How the Dutch Ran a Seventeenth-Century Colony
Imperialism and the Victorians
The Christian Century in Japan 1549-1650
Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier 1600-1800
The 'Turbulent Frontier' as a Factor in British Expansion
| Highly cited | No |
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