The Asian Studies Parade: Archival, Biographical, Institutional and Post-Colonial Approaches
ISBN: 9789400604445
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Leiden University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sociology ; Asian Studies;

The Asian Studies Parade reflects a lifetime of commitment to the field by Paul van der Velde, a leading Asian studies innovator, scholar, and publisher. The first chapters examine aspects of the Dutch colonial presence in Asia and its intellectual support system in the Netherlands. The author's engagement with historical biography emerges in studies of such contrasting figures as Japanese interpreter Imamura Gen'emon Eisei, pioneering anthropologist P.J. Veth, and anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner. Van der Velde then continues to describe the development of Asia-Europe links at the end of the 20th century and the emergence of the 'New Asia Scholar' in the 21st century. This unique work will interest anyone concerned with wider issues in Asian studies.

Paul van der Velde is a historian and served as Secretary of the International Convention of Asian Scholars and General Secretary of the region-transcending multilingual ICAS Book Prize for many years. His most recent publication is Life under the Palms: The Sublime World of Jacob Haafner, 1754-1809 (NUS Press, 2020).

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