Comments on: Chinatown – Kolkata

By: ycl1688

ycl1688 — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:10:20 +0000

Great pieces of work. Thanks to those involved.
Then there is education and scholarship denied, because of chinese birth, chinese name given at birth, what a tragedy.

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:01:07 +0000

Thien,
For some reasons, the above web links do not work. I am resending the links and the process below to come up to and to arrive at the video clips. Altogether there are 18 video clips covering: Calcutta Chinatown; Family Origins, Profession & Trade; Birth, Marriage & Death; Life at Home; Food; Transport; Schooling; The British Presence; Leisure; The Japanese Threats, Festivals, Partition & the Calcutta Riots; Looking West; Sino-India War; Departure from India; Arrival in Britain; Reflections.
To get there: enter in Yahoo Search http://www.themeridiansociety.org.uk/
When blog page displayed of the Meridian Society of UK, click on Special Project;
Then clcik on Chinese from Bengal Heritage Project;
As the page appears with 18 icon pictures covering titled headings mentioned above, one needs to click on each titled icon individually to view the video clips.
Wondering if you could translate or reformat these videos into Youtube form and post them in this blog under a separate heading for easy viewing. Reckon there will be alot of efforts required but it would be great if that could be done.
This project very fittingly described the majority of Chinese in India of their heritage. It should form a placeholder here and a meaningful archive so that our heritage will not disappear or forgotten by the younger generations.
The Meridian Society of UK should be acknowledged for the great work and research they have undertaken. Kudos for the excellent work in the project.

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:55:47 +0000

Thien,

Here is the link – http://www.themeridiansociety.org.uk/mweb/pages/bengal2.html

Altogether, there are 18 video clips . It would be good if they could be reformatted to Youtube for easy viewing.

Courtesy of the Meridian Society of UK.

By: Thien

Thien — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:58:50 +0000

can u sen me the link to da videos so i can upload it here.. thankss

By: Thien

Thien — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:56:19 +0000

@Sylvester : where are the videos?

By: Sylvester

Sylvester — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:24:57 +0000

Hi Ycli688, Leon and Thien

A week or so ago, I sent a link from the Meridian Society of UK about Chinese of Bengal ( Kolkata ) of its history, heritage, struggles and survival. I hope those video clips could be shared out here with all Chinese Indians here to know of their heritage and hardships of struggles due to 1962 Sino-India border war. Apparently, there were two Chinese Indian women medical doctors interviewed here. The elder one is 98 years old and she is still going strong.

Appreciate if you could upload all video clips here with permission of the society. I believe this is the right place to archive such stories. Look forward to the uploads here soonest possible.

By: ycl1688

ycl1688 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:23:28 +0000

Correction
when will in house fighting end ?