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Doing Time With Nehru: The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family by Yin Marsh

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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...

The Last Dragon Dance: Chinatown Stories by Kwai-Yun Li

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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...

The Boy from Kalimpong by Christopher K Ahoy

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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....

Chinese Temples and Churches of Kolkata by Subhadip Mukherjee

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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...

Kolkata’s Early Chinese Community And Their Economic Contributions by Arpita Bose

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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...

Territory and Centrality Among the Chinese in Kolkata by Catherine Guéguen

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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....

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF XUANZANG: TAN YUN-SHAN AND INDIA

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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...

The Chinese in South Asia by Zhang Xing and Tansen Sen

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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...

Migration Patterns and Occupational Specialisations of Kolkata Chinese: An Insider’s History

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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...

Home, city and diaspora: Anglo–Indian and Chinese attachments to Calcutta

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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...

The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment by Joy Ma and Dilip D'Souza

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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...

Academic Resources on the Indian-Chinese Community

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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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