Pepper, Guns, and Parleys: The Dutch East India Company and China, 1662-1681

"painstaking but lively study . . . considerably enriches our knowledge of seventeenth-century Asian history by exposing two decades of the Dutch experience in China" Frederic Wakeman, UC Berkeley "extremely valuable inside view of early Ch'ing foreign policy" Richard J. Smith, Rice University "definitive contribution to Ch'ing historiography . . . admirable example of multi-archival research" Jonathan Spence, Yale University