Leonard Blussé

Leonard Blussé J. Leonard Blussé van Oud-Alblas
Born	(1946-07-23) July 23, 1946 Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	Leiden University
Scientific career
Fields	East Asian History Asian-European Relations History of the VOC
Institutions	Leiden University

Leonard Blussé (born July 23, 1946, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch historian concerned with the field of Asian-European relations. Blussé has a prolific written output in his field, having authored, co-authored or edited more than twenty books since 2000.

He was elected a member of Academia Europaea in 2010.

Selected bibliography

• Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans. Harvard University Press. 2008. The 2006 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures.
• Shiba shiji-mo Badaweiya Tangrenshehui (The Chinese Community of Batavia at the End of the Eighteenth Century (in Chinese). Xiamen: Xiamen University Press. 2002.
• Bitter Bonds, A Colonial Divorce Drama of the Seventeenth Century. Princeton: Markus Wiener. 2002.
• Retour Amoy, Anny Tan – Een vrouwenleven in Indonesië, Nederland en China (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Balans.
• Ba-ta-wei-ya hua-jen yu Chung-ho maoyi (The Chinese of Batavia and Sino-Dutch trade) (in Chinese). Guangxi People's Publishing Company. 1997.
• Zhong-he jiaowang shi (A History of Sino-Dutch Relations) (in Chinese). Amsterdam: Otto Cramwinckel. 1989.
• Strange Company, Chinese Settlers, Mestizo Women and the Dutch in VOC Batavia. Dordrecht: Foris. 1986.