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...

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

4 years after landing up in Tiretti Bazaar cheena pada in full bloom in the 1950s, Ah Leen marries a scholar carpenter. This is his story

Chapter 6 of The Calcutta Mosaic: The Minority Communities of Calcutta Eds. Nilanjana Gupta, Himadri Banerjee, Sipra Mukherjee. London,...

India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 3/4, INDIACHINA Neighbours A history of the “Cheenapara” or Chinatown in central...

This study by Lukas Pauer and Adam David Wilson from ETH Studio Basel looks at the spatial dynamics of Chinatown in Kolkatta. It looks at...