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June 29, 2005
Kees Zandvliet The Dutch Encounter with Asia, 1600–1950 Exh. cat. Zwolle, Netherlands: Waanders Uitgevers, 2004. 464 pp.; 245 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. €29.95 (9040087172)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, October 10, 2002–February 9, 2003

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2005.47

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“Encounter”—the operative word, to my mind, of the title under review—has transformed, in a relatively brief period of time, from a strikingly innovative and promising concept to a somewhat enigmatic, if not altogether elusive, scholarly term of choice, which is increasingly, perhaps even blandly, invoked to describe the meeting between Europe and the wider world in the early modern period. Which is to say, the relatively fresh field of “encounter studies” is already—don’t blink!—ripe for...