ANTH2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Indian Chinese Cuisine, Cultural Assimilation, Indian Pop
13 Dec 2018
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Week 9: china towns" in india: a case study of calcutta. *jennifer liang, migration patterns and occupational specialisations of kolkata chinese: an. One of the least studied aspects of the china-india interactions is the study on the respective diasporic communities in india and china. This lecture will focus on the chinese diasporic communities in india making a case-study of the calcutta (kolkata) china towns. It will discuss the indian-chinese/ chinese-indian communities through the formation of their identity, negotiation of lived-spaces and cultural assimilation and integration. Search for the cultural identity of the chinese-indians in kolkata, sihui and toronto in jayati bhattacharya and coonoor kripalani ed. Chinese immigrant communities: comparative perspectives (london: anthem-iseas, 2015), pp. Stuart hall offers two ways of looking at cultural identity. The first position writes defines cultural identity as a shared culture, hiding inside the many other, more superficial or artificially imposed selves.
