Case File · Issue 4

Author: (Dutch) Paul van der Velde and Zhuang Guozi
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Publishing Date: 2005-11-01
Features: The collation and publication of this volume, "Case Records" from the series "Archives of the Batavia Chinese Guild (Batavia Guild Hall)," were included in the international cooperative research project as part of Xiamen University's inter-university exchange program starting in the year 2000. The original archival records span the periods of June 8, 1832–August 1, 1834, and October 20, 1843–June 7, 1844, covering ten years of affairs of the Batavia Chinese Guild (Guild Hall). The main text of the original records was written in regular, semi-cursive, and cursive Chinese calligraphy, interspersed with archaic, variant, and colloquial characters, as well as simplified characters in use at the time. In this collation, the text has been standardized to modern simplified Chinese characters. In the original archives, years were recorded using Suzhou numerals, while months and days were written in Chinese characters. In this collation, all dates have been converted to Arabic numerals. In the original archives, monetary amounts, quantities of items, and numbers of people were often recorded using both large and small Chinese numerals or Suzhou numerals. In this collation, all monetary, measurement, and numerical data that could include decimals (i.e., non-integers) or numbers above hundreds have been converted to Arabic numerals. For data with multiple levels of measurement units, all have been standardized to Arabic numerals in this collation.