Weststeijn, T. (2022). Unease with the Exotic: Ambiguous Responses to Chinese Material Culture in the Dutch Republic. In Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period (pp. 436-476). (UCLA Clark Memorial Library series). University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/9781487544959/making-worlds/

Trude Dijkstra’s book The Chinese Imprint: Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700l has appeared in Open Access with Brill. This book discusses how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in printed works produced in the Dutch Republic between 1595 and 1700. By focusing on books, newspapers, learned journals, and pamphlets,…

Review essay on Rembrandt and India (by Thijs Weststeijn) Book reviewed: Stephanie Schrader (ed.), with contributions by Catherine Glynn, Yael Rice and William W. Robinson, Rembrandt and the inspiration of India, Los Angeles [Getty Publications], 2018 (Exhibition: 13 March-24 June, 2018) | Jos Gommans, The unseen world: The Netherlands and India from 1550, Nijmegen [Vantilt] 2018 |…

Weststeijn, T. (2021). Saint Confucius, the Chinese Adam, and a Broken Mirror: Writing World History in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands. History of Humanities, 6(2), 471-497. https://doi.org/10.1086/715867

“Foreign Devils and Philosophers” What was the cultural impact of early meetings between Chinese and Europeans? Foreign Devils and Philosophers: Cultural Encounters between the Chinese, the Dutch, and Other Europeans, 1590-1800   explores visual, literary, and scholarly representations of the Celestial Empire and Western countries against the backdrop of actual encounters. Based on rare Chinese and, correspondingly,…