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Sep 29, 202010 min read
Doing Time With Nehru: The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family by Yin Marsh
Published by Zubaan (2015) Available on Amazon About the book The midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into...
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Sep 29, 20207 min read
The Last Dragon Dance: Chinatown Stories by Kwai-Yun Li
Published by Penguin India Available on Amazon A collection of short stories set in Chinatown Calcutta in the 1960's. Kwai-Yun Li's Hakka...
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Sep 27, 20201 min read
Chinatown Days by Rita Chowdhury
Available on Amazon Originally published in Assamese as Makam, the novel won the Sahitya Akademi award It is the early nineteenth...
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Sep 27, 20202 min read
The Boy from Kalimpong by Christopher K Ahoy
Available on Amazon The Boy From Kalimpong is an interesting and informative book written by Christopher K. Ahoy, a remarkable author....
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Sep 27, 20201 min read
Chinese Temples and Churches of Kolkata by Subhadip Mukherjee
From https://indianvagabond.com/2018/03/12/chinese-temples-and-churches-of-kolkata/ For a detailed account of the various Chinese temples...
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Sep 26, 20201 min read
Makam by Rita Chowdhury
Available on Amazon This Assamese Novel was the winner of the Sahitya Akademi award. The English translation Chinatown Days was published...
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Sep 18, 20201 min read
Kolkata’s Early Chinese Community And Their Economic Contributions by Arpita Bose
South Asia Research Vol. 33 (2): 163–176 Abstract: It is not widely known that Chinese people have been living and working in Kolkata for...
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Sep 18, 20201 min read
Travels afar by Maria Tham
A account by Maria Tham of growing up Chinese in Karachi. Taken from "Cultural Curiosity: Thirteen Stories about the Search for Chinese...
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Sep 17, 20201 min read
Territory and Centrality Among the Chinese in Kolkata by Catherine Guéguen
Source: Wu Family Archive From Leo Suryadinata, Migration, Indigenization and Interaction, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2011, pp....
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Sep 10, 20202 min read
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF XUANZANG: TAN YUN-SHAN AND INDIA
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF XUANZANG: TAN YUN-SHAN AND INDIA, Edited by Tan Chung, www.ignca.gov.in Source: Wikipedia Tan Yun-Shan was a...
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Sep 10, 20204 min read
By the Side of Bapu by Shanti Tseng
Shanti Tseng was a Chinese author and journalist and a devotee of Mahatma Gandhi. Tseng came to India to study in Tagore's...
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Sep 10, 20201 min read
The Chinese in South Asia by Zhang Xing and Tansen Sen
Source: Tan Chee-Beng (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora The emergence of Chinese communities in South Asia...
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Sep 10, 20201 min read
Migration Patterns and Occupational Specialisations of Kolkata Chinese: An Insider’s History
Jennifer Liang This article examines the history and experiences of the Chinese Indian community in Kolkata based on extensive interviews...
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Sep 10, 20201 min read
The Chinese from Bengal
Source: http://www.themeridiansociety.org.uk/ In the early 1960s, Britain saw a sudden influx of Chinese from India. Having fled poverty...
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Sep 10, 20201 min read
Home, city and diaspora: Anglo–Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta
ALISON BLUNT AND JAYANI BONNERJEE This article is about the city as home for people living in diaspora. We develop two key areas of...
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Sep 9, 20201 min read
The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment by Joy Ma and Dilip D'Souza
Available on Amazon The untold account of the internment of 3,000 Chinese-Indians after the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Just after the...
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Sep 8, 20202 min read
Academic Resources on the Indian-Chinese Community
The following academic and other materials are being provided here to facilitate further research into the Indian-Chinese community. The...
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