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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, 202010 min read
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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 29, 20207 min read
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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, 20201 min read
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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, 20202 min read
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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 27, 20201 min read
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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 26, 20201 min read
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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
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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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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 17, 20201 min read
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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, 20202 min read
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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, 20204 min read
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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
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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
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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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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 10, 20201 min read
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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 9, 20201 min read
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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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Sep 8, 20202 min read
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