From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945 write by Yin Cao. This book was released on 2017-10-10. From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Policemen to Revolutionaries uncovers the less-known story of Sikh emigrants in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yin Cao argues that the cross-border circulation of personnel and knowledge across the British colonial and the Sikh diasporic networks, facilitated the formation of the Sikh community in Shanghai, eventually making this Chinese city one of the overseas hubs of the Indian nationalist struggle. By adopting a translocal approach, this study elaborates on how the flow of Sikh emigrants, largely regarded as subalterns, initially strengthened but eventually unhinged British colonial rule in East and Southeast Asia.
Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45
Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45 write by Cao Yin. This book was released on 2022-09-30. Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, British India had been taken as the main logistic base for China's war against the Japanese. Chinese soldiers, government officials, professionals, and merchants flocked into India for training, business opportunities, retreat, and rehabilitation. This book is about how the activities of the Chinese sojourners in wartime India caused great concerns to the British colonial regime and the Chinese Nationalist government alike and how these sojourners responded to the surveillance, discipline, and check imposed by the governments. This book provides a subaltern perspective on the history of modern India-China relations that has been dominated by accounts of elite cultural interaction and geopolitical machination.
The Worlds of Victor Sassoon
The Worlds of Victor Sassoon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Worlds of Victor Sassoon write by Rosemary Wakeman. This book was released on 2024-07-12. The Worlds of Victor Sassoon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon. In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the world by storm as it entered an era of globalized commerce and the unprecedented circulation of goods, people, and ideas. Wakeman explores these cities and the world they helped transform through the life of Victor Sassoon, who in 1924 gained control of his powerful family’s trading and banking empire. She tracks his movements between these three cities as he grows his family’s fortune and transforms its holdings into a global juggernaut. Using his life as its point of entry, The Worlds of Victor Sassoon paints a broad portrait not just of wealth, cosmopolitanism, and leisure but also of the discrimination, exploitation, and violence wreaked by a world increasingly driven by the demands of capital.
Imagining India in Modern China
Imagining India in Modern China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining India in Modern China write by Gal Gvili. This book was released on 2022-10-11. Imagining India in Modern China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner, 2023 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial aggression. These writers imagined India as an alternative to Western imperialism—a Pan-Asian ideal that could help chart an escape route from colonialism and its brutal grasp on body and mind by ushering in a new kind of modernity in Asian terms. Gal Gvili examines how Chinese writers’ image of India shaped the making of a new literature and spurred efforts to achieve literary decolonization. She argues that multifaceted visions of Sino-Indian connections empowered Chinese literary figures to resist Western imperialism and its legacies through novel forms and genres. However, Gvili demonstrates, the Global North and its authority mediated Chinese visions of Sino-Indian pasts and futures. Often reading Indian literature and thought through English translations, Chinese writers struggled to break free from deeply ingrained imperialist knowledge structures. Imagining India in Modern China traces one of the earliest South-South literary imaginaries: the hopes it inspired, the literary rejuvenation it launched, and the shadow of the North that inescapably haunted it. By unearthing Chinese writers’ endeavors to decolonize literature and thought as well as the indelible marks that imperialism left on their minds, it offers new perspective on the possibilities and limitations of anticolonial movements and South-South solidarity.
China and the Philippines
China and the Philippines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook China and the Philippines write by Phillip B. Guingona. This book was released on 2023-11-23. China and the Philippines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenging global history's Euro-American orientation, this study centres China and the Philippines in the early twentieth-century.
