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    Doing Time With Nehru: The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family by Yin Marsh
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    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 10 min

    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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    The Last Dragon Dance: Chinatown Stories by Kwai-Yun Li
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    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 7 min

    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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    Chinatown Days by Rita Chowdhury
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    • Sep 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    The Boy from Kalimpong by Christopher K Ahoy
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    • Sep 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    Chinese Temples and Churches of Kolkata by Subhadip Mukherjee
    Desi Chinese Project
    • Sep 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    Makam by Rita Chowdhury
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    • Sep 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    Kolkata’s Early Chinese Community And Their Economic Contributions by Arpita Bose
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    • Sep 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    Travels afar by Maria Tham
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    • Sep 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    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
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    • Sep 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF XUANZANG: TAN YUN-SHAN AND INDIA
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    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    By the Side of Bapu by Shanti Tseng
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    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 4 min

    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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    The Chinese in South Asia by Zhang Xing and Tansen Sen
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    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    Migration Patterns and Occupational Specialisations of Kolkata Chinese: An Insider’s History
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    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    The Chinese from Bengal
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    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    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
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    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment by Joy Ma and Dilip D'Souza
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    • Sep 9, 2020
    • 1 min

    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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    Academic Resources on the Indian-Chinese Community
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    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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