Upcoming Events

January 27 & 28, 2010    SINGAPORE

Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities: Comparative Perspectives

This three-day international and interdisciplinary workshop organised by the Nalanda- Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS, Singapore in collaboration with the Hong Kong University, will focus on various facets of the Indian and Chinese immigrant communities across the globe within a comparative framework. reading and "meet the author" with Toronto-based Chinese-Indian author Kwai-Yun Li and others.

Wednesday, January 27
Panel II: 2.00p.m.-4.00p.m.
Indians in China and Chinese in India
Kwai-yun Li presents:
Shifting Worlds and Changing Identities:
The Reshaping of the Chinese-Indian Communities in India after the “1962 Sino-Indian Incident”

Thursday, January 28
Panel IV: 1.30p.m.-3.30p.m.
Chinese and Indian Diaspora across the globe
Kwai-yun Li reads from: The Last Dragon Dance: Chinatown Stories

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
The Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre
30 Heng Mui Keng Terrace Pasir Panjang,
Singapore, 119614

Telephone: 6870 4549

Fax: 6775 6264

E-Mail: nsc@iseas.edu.sg, Toronto, Ontario

Past Events

Saturday, September 26, 2009    TORONTO

Festival of South Asian Literature and Arts:

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

The Munk Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario

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

Time - Evening

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

Sunday, July 29th, 2007    TORONTO

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.

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Sunday, June 24th, 2007     MISSISSAUGA

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.