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    "title": "A Colonial Tragedy",
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    "annotation": "This book evokes the forgotten colonial tragedy of the Chinese massacre at Batavia in 1740.",
    "description": "In October 1740, a tragedy unfolded in Batavia, the Asian headquarters of the Dutch East India Company on the island of Java. Faced with a spontaneous Chinese peasant uprising, Batavia\u2019s vengeful inhabitants carried out a bloody massacre of their fellow Chinese within the city walls. The murderers marched from house to house, looting and pillaging, not even sparing the hospitals and prisons.<br>\nHow could such a slaughter take place in the prosperous Queen of the East? Drawing on a wealth of Dutch and Chinese sources, Leonard Bluss\u00e9 reconstructs the colonial development of Batavia and its environs, and the crucial Chinese contribution to it. After more than a hundred years of successful cooperation, this spectacular colonial project was lost to a toxic mix of ecological decline, epidemics, runaway Chinese immigration and high-level personal conflicts within the colonial administration, with the Chinese paying the ultimate price.<br>\nNever before has so much attention to detail revealed what preceded the massacre and how this tragedy was eventually swept under the carpet of colonial history.",
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