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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
pp v-vi
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Foreword
pp vii-x
- By Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore
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Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii
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Introduction
pp xiii-xxii
- By Jayati Bhattacharya, National University of Singapore, Coonoor Kripalani, University of Hong Kong
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Section I - Historical Antecedents and the Question of Nationality
pp 1-2
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1 - Blackbirders Refitted? The Journeys of Capitalists and Labourers in the Indian Ocean, 1830s–1930s
pp 3-12
- By Sugata Bose, Presidency University
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2 - Connecting Diaspora Histories: Indians and Chinese in Colonial Malaya
pp 13-24
- By Sunil S. Amrith, Cambridge University Press
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3 - Chinese and Indian Diaspora: Some Common and Not-So-Common Cultural Processes
pp 25-40
- By Tan Chee-Beng, Hong Kong University Press
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Section II - The Meeting Ground: Indians and Chinese in Southeast Asia
pp 41-42
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4 - China's Nationality Laws and the Chinese Overseas
pp 43-54
- By Leo Suryadinata, Nanyang Technological University
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5 - A Comparison of the Home Remittance Systems of Indian and Chinese Migrants in Southeast Asia: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
pp 55-76
- By Hamashita Takeshi, National University of Singapore
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6 - Identity, Transnationalism and Corporate Development: Chinese Business in Malaysia
pp 77-90
- By Edmund Terence Gomez, University of Michigan
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7 - Beyond the Glitterati: The Indian and Chinese Jewellers of Little India, Singapore
pp 91-108
- By Jayati Bhattacharya, National University of Singapore
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8 - Indian and Chinese Communities in Contemporary Burma: A Comparative Analysis of Their Presence and Influence
pp 109-136
- By Renaud Egreteau, University of Hong Kong
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9 - Expressions of Faith in Hindu Processional Festivals: Case Studies from Singapore and Malaysia
pp 137-152
- By Gauri Parimoo Krishnan, Devangana Sculptures on Indian Temple Architecture
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10 - Beyond Boundaries? Hindu Spaces in the Chinatowns of Kolkata and Singapore
pp 153-164
- By Jayani Bonnerjee, University of London
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Section III - Indians in China and Chinese in India
pp 165-166
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11 - Law and Its Impact on Diasporic Philanthropic Institutions: The Practices of Sinchew and the Waqs in the Straits Settlements
pp 167-186
- By Stephanie Chung Po-Yin, Oxford University
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12 - Indian Soldiers and Policemen in China in the Colonial Period
pp 187-196
- By Madhavi Thampi, Delhi University
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13 - New Indian Migrants in Guangzhou and Its Vicinity
pp 197-218
- By Jia Haitao, Chindian Studies at Jinan University
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14 - Who Is a Chinese-Indian? Search for the Cultural Identity of the Chinese-Indians in Kolkata, Sihui and Toronto
pp 219-232
- By Zhang Xing, Peking University
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Section IV - Across the Globe: Indian and Chinese Diasporas
pp 233-234
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15 - Overseas Indian and Chinese Communities in Film: Defining Identities through Popular Hindi Film and Transnational Chinese and Indian Films, 1990s Onwards
pp 235-256
- By Coonoor Kripalani, University of Hong Kong
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16 - The “Other” NRIs: The Case of Low-Wage Indian Migrants in the Gulf
pp 257-280
- By Laavanya Kathiravelu, Nanyang Technological University
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Postscript - Shifting Worlds and Changing Identities: The Reshaping of the Chinese-Indian Communities in India after the 1962 “Sino-Indian Incident”
pp 281-290
- By Kwai Yun Li, University of Toronto
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List of Contributors
pp 291-294
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Index
pp 295-305
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