in 1948, Ah Leen and her family leave behind rural life and reach cheenapada in Calcutta. They encounter a Chinatown in its full glory.

Source: Wu Family Archive From Leo Suryadinata, Migration, Indigenization and Interaction, World Scientific Publishing Co., 2011, pp....

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