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from his statement, was also related to the China Emperor (China in the mainland).

What I can draw is that how the flow of technoscape and ideoscape materialized and put in dialogue with the construction of the building. This dialogue shows how the European ideoscapes of rationality and colonialism in conjuncture with Chinese's mythology in signifying the spatial and social distance of 'the colonial world' of Batavia.

In his visit to Batavia around 19th , Worsfold captured this :

Batavia may be divided (like all Gaul) into three parts. First, there is the business quarter, the oldest, where the houses are tall and built in the style still prevalent in the warm countries of Europe, with balconies and verandahs and widely projecting eaves, and where the streets are narrow. Then there is the Chinese Campong, which, with the adjacent streets, occupies the central portion of the town, containing the bulk of the population closely packed in their curious dwellings. And, lastly, there is Weltevreden, the Dutch town, where the officials, the military, and the merchants reside. (33)

What I can relate from his description is that the Chinese was in a 'close' spatial and social distance with the Dutch, as is also implied by the building and the information from Pak Kasirun. It implies that for the Dutch authority at that time Chinese was very important. The importance of Chinese for the colonial world cannot be separated from the context of global trade at that time, as it is also implied by Pak Kasirun by mentioning 'there was related to the Chinese emperor'. In his analysis about Batavia, Blusse points out that during the VOC time, Batavia was located in the network of inter-Asia trade along with Nagasaki and Canton (5). To maintain the good relation with the Chinese Empire in the mainland, VOC and Dutch authorities in Batavia gave special privileges for the Chinese in Batavia. He shows that:

[c]uriously enough, they provided comparable structures for Chinese institutions, such as the palatial dwelling of the Chinese kapitein (captain) that included an office where he met weekly with the other Chinese officers in town, and the well-equipped Chinese hospital. Directly outside the city walls stood Chinese temples and extensive cemeteries where the Chinese could bury their dead. (39)

What can I draw from this, is that the Chinese in Batavia was placed under the negotiation between political and economic constellation between the China Empire in the mainland and Dutch authority in Batavia. This implies that how the global context influences the local landscapes of Batavia and vice versa. Thus when anything befell with the Chinese in Batavia due to the policy of the Batavia authority, the effect would affect the relation between China Empire and the Dutch.

Blusse mentions that on the account of the massacre of Chinese in Batavia on October 1740 (Chinezenmoord), the interest of China Empire and Dutch colonial authority played its role (41). On one side, the carnage was responded by the removal of Adriaan Valckenier, the Governor General who was responsible for the carnage, from his position, but on the other side '[the China] emperor did not care about his overseas subjects, who generally were referred to as hanjian-traitors or renegades'. Two things can be inferred from this account: first, the Chinese in Batavia was not always in a harmonious rel