Indian and Chinese immigrant communities

comparative perspectives

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Jayati Bhattacharya, Coonoor K ...
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Indian and Chinese immigrant communities

comparative perspectives

"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"--

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Anthem Press
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English

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Indian and Chinese immigrant communities: comparative perspectives
2015, Anthem Press
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Cover of: Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities
Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives
2015, Anthem Press
in English
Cover of: Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities
Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives
2015, Anthem Press
in English
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Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives
2015, Anthem Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

"A copublication with ISEAS Publishing."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London, New York
Series
Anthem-ISEAS India-China studies
Copyright Date
2015

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Dewey Decimal Class
305.8914/11
Library of Congress
DS432.5 .I444 2015, 2014046608

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Pagination
pages cm

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Open Library
OL31061317M
ISBN 13
9781783083626
LCCN
2014046608
OCLC/WorldCat
897510705

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