Upcoming

Friday, Feb 15, 2008    MUMBAI

Chinese New Year Series:
From Kolkata to Canada: Stories of the Chinese Diaspora

Film Screening of The Legend of Fat Mama: Stories from Calcutta's Melting Wok

Kitab Mahal, 192 D.N. Road, Fort, Mumbai,
Fourth Floor

Film screening at 6.30 p.m.
Discussion at 7 p.m., Closed at 8 p.m.

Director: Rafeeq Ellias

Followed by Rafeeq Ellias in conversation with Toronto-based author Kwai-Yun Li

The Legend of Fat Mama tells the bitter-sweet story of the Chinese community in Calcutta and its experience in the aftermath of the 1962 War, which triggered a wave of migration, principally to Canada. It is a journey of nostalgia in search of a woman who once made the most
delicious noodles in Calcutta's Chinatown, weaving in the process the rich tapestry of life of the Chinese in the city.

Rafeeq Ellias, an international fashion and magazine photographer, has won innumerable awards for his work in India and abroad. These range from UNESCO to the Art Directors Club of New York to the Asian Advertising Congress. Rafeeq worked in advertising with McCann Ericsson and Ketchum McLeod & Grove before founding his own advertising agency in India - Metaphor Communications. During the past two decades Rafeeq has also been photographing the Chinese community in Kolkata.

Saturday, Feb 23, 2008    DELHI

Chinese New Year Series:
The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories

Book reading and "meet the author" with Toronto-based Chinese-Indian author Kwai-Yun Li.
Chaired by Patricia Uberoi, Institute of Chinese
Studies

Conference Room 1, India International Centre (Main Building), 40 Max Mueller Marg, New Delhi

Book reading at 6.30 p.m.
Discussion at 7 p.m., Close at 7.30 p.m

From crumbling shops in Chinatown to decaying tanneries in Tangra, this collection of short stories take a look at the life of the Chinese community in post-colonial Calcutta. From tales of Wong's Shoe Shop, where a mother arranges a marriage for her six year old daughter; to temples guarded by billy goats as a family drama rages inside, Kwai Yun-Li takes readers on a wonderful journey into a world experienced by few and forgotten by many.

Dr. Patricia Uberoi is an Honorary Fellow and present Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies. She is a
Professor in Social Change and Development at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.

Professor Uberoi has held teaching and research positions in the Australian National University (Canberra), the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla), the Department of Sociology (Delhi School of
Economics) and the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), and since 1992 has been Co-Editor of the sociology journal, Contributions to Indian Sociology. She has published
widely on family, kinship, gender relations and popular culture in reference to both India and China.

Wedneday Feb 27, 2008,    CALCUTTA

Chinese New Year Series:
The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories

Book reading and "meet the author" with Toronto-based Chinese-Indian author Kwai-Yun Li.

Jadavpur University - exact venue to be confirmed

Time - Evening - exact time to be confirmed

To register please email
programs@asiasociety.org.in

For enquiries, please call +91-22-6610-0888

Thursday, Feb 28, 2008,    CALCUTTA

Book reading and "Meet the Author" with Toronto-based Chinese-Indian author Kwai-Yun Li

Cha Bar, Oxford Bookstore, 17 Park Street, Kolkata

11.30am

To register please email
programs@asiasociety.org.in

For enquiries please call +91-22-6610-0888

Past Events

Sunday, July 29th at 6:00 pm

Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Festival

Exhibition Place, in Toronto, Ontario
Kwai-yun Li will read from her collection of short stories: The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories.

All TSAR publications are available online.

Visit

Sunday, June 24th at 12:30 pm

Mosaic 2007
The South Asian Heritage Festival of Mississauga

Tea Tent at the north Civic Centre
300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, Ontario
Kwai-yun Li will read from her collection of short stories: The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories.