Indian and Chinese immigrant communities : comparative perspectives / edited by Jayati Bhattacharya and Coonoor Kripalani.
"This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious 'other', the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business net...
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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Anthem Press
2015
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| 505 | 0 | |a Historical antecedents and the question of nationality -- Blackbirders refitted? The journeys of capitalists and labourers in the Indian Ocean, 1830s-1930 / Sugata Bose -- Connecting diaspora histories: Indians and Chinese in colonial Malaya / Sunil S. Amrith -- Chinese and Indian diaspora: some common and not-so-common cultural processes / Tan Chee-Beng -- The meeting ground: Indians and Chinese in Southeast Asia -- China's nationality laws and the Chinese overseas / Leo Suryadinata -- A comparison of the home remittance systems of Indian and -- Chinese migrants in Southeast Asia: nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Hamashita Takeshi -- Identity, transnationalism and corporate development: Chinese business in Malaysia / Edmund Terence Gomez -- Beyond the glitterati: the Indian and Chinese jewellers of Little India, Singapore / Jayati Bhattacharya -- Indian and Chinese immigrant communities -- Indian and Chinese communities in contemporary Burma: a comparative analysis of their presence and influence / Renaud Egreteau -- Expressions of faith in Hindu processional festivals: case studies from Singapore and Malaysia / Gauri Parimoo Krishnan -- Beyond boundaries? Hindu spaces in the Chinatowns of Kolkata and Singapore / Jayani Bonnerjee -- Indians in China and Chinese in India -- Law and its impact on diasporic philanthropic institutions: -- The practices of Sinchew and the Waqf in the Straits settlements / Stephanie Chung Po-Yin -- Indian soldiers and policemen in China in the colonial period / Madhavi Thampi -- New Indian migrants in Guangzhou and its vicinity / Jia Haitao -- Across the globe: Indian and Chinese diasporas -- Who is a Chinese-Indian? Search for the cultural identity of the Chinese-Indians in Kolkata, Sihui and Toronto / Zhang Xing -- Overseas Indian and Chinese communities in film: Defining identities through popular Hindi film and transnational Chinese and Indian films, 1990s onwards / Coonoor Kripalani -- The other Nris: the case of low-wage Indian migrants in the Gulf / Laavanya Kathiravelu -- Postscript -- Shifting worlds and changing identities: the reshaping of the Chinese-Indian communities in India after the 1962 Sino-Indian incident / Kwai Yun Li. | |
| 520 | |a "This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious 'other', the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, this volume explores material, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework"-- Provided by publisher. | ||
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