The Shanghai connection

The book is the result of painstaking research, including poring over archival material and interviewing descendants of the prominent merchant families

Stray Birds on the Huangpu: A History of Indians in Shanghai

Mishi Saran and Zhang Ke (Eds)

Shanghai People Art Publishers

350 yuan

Mishi Saran, a well-known author, and Zhang Ke of Shanghai’s Fudan University have produced a most readable and engaging history of Indians in Shanghai. It covers the period from the time China’s premier metropolitan city began its journey as a treaty port after the infamous Opium Wars in the mid-19th century up to its reincarnation as China’s most modern and dazzling commercial centre in the new millennium. Several Indians have shared this journey through recent history, including Parsi,