Chinese Sojourners in Wartime Raj, 1942-45

During the Pacific War, British India served as a crucial logistics base for China's war against the Japanese, attracting Chinese soldiers, government officials, professionals, and merchants. This book explores the concerns of the British colonial regime and the Chinese Nationalist government about the Chinese sojourners in wartime India and their responses to surveillance, discipline, and check. It offers a subaltern perspective on the history of modern India-China relations, challenging the dominant narrative of elite cultural interaction and geopolitical machination.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 30 September 2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press

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.

Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780192870209