Interethnic fraternization in Batavia recalled the brutal 1734 Chinese uprising

Evidence

Perhaps what was most unsettling to Rochussen in the reports received of that night was the “fraternizing” of Eurasian and European youth with Chinese and the “popular classes” (volksklasse), reminding him, as he put it, of what had happened a century earlier—an uprising of Chinese in 1734 that ended in bloodshed. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 554

Categorization

• XREF: Fear of cross-racial alliance across the color line prefigures the racial-panic dynamics central to settler-colonial and postcolonial historiography.