时间Time
2017年11月23日15:00丨15:00PM, November 23rd, 2017
地点 Venue
复旦大学智库楼203室丨Room 203, Think Tank Building, Fudan University
主办 Host
复旦发展研究院 丨Fudan Development Institute
主持人 Chair
Timothy Cheek
加拿大英属哥伦比亚大学亚洲研究所教授
Professor, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
Chinese ‘Characteristics’ in India: A Reading of Foreigner Registration Files 1940s-1960s
演讲人Speakers
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| Lisa Lindkvist Zhang | Prem Poddar |
| Doctoral Fellow, Heidelberg University | Professor, Roskilde University |
摘要Abstract
Examining archival files from the Kalimpong Foreigner Registration Office and its Calcutta counterpart, this paper delineates how the category of the Chinese national was construed over the span of 20 years, first by the British-Indian colonial state until 1947 and then the postcolonial Indian authorities. Strategically situated on the Ancient Tea Horse Road connecting China to India, Kalimpong, the Himalayan border town, specifically lent itself to Alien Acts that were promulgated in differing forms all over the British Empire. The state set up a surreptitious rule of colonial difference, as officers in Kalimpong were faced with the challenge to identify— due to the place’s muddled multi-ethnicity— Chinese from merely ‘Chinese-looking’ individuals. A set of Chinese ‘characteristics’ or profiles to assist in the identification process produced a matrix of how the Indian Government framed the Chinese in India.
原文链接:
http://fddi.fudan.edu.cn/dongtai/huodong/5224.html?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0
