Students of modem Chinese history, and modern Shanghai history in particular, tend to view Shanghai as having been a lone islet during the Pacific War when it was cut off from other parts of the world. This article, h...Students of modem Chinese history, and modern Shanghai history in particular, tend to view Shanghai as having been a lone islet during the Pacific War when it was cut off from other parts of the world. This article, however, argues that Shanghai was still well connected to areas under the control of the Japanese throughout the war. Using the Sikh community in Shanghai as a case, it demonstrates how the Indian National Army used both a Japanese-initiated military highway and the long-existing Indian diasporic network in Southeast and East Asia to facilitate a certain kind of mobilization. It further sheds light on how the Sikhs in Shanghai were influenced by and responded to the Indian National Army＇s endeavors.展开更多
Studies on colonial history have long been trapped either by the binaryframework of the imperial history or by the linear narrative of thenational history. However, the past of transnational subjects such as theSikh p...Studies on colonial history have long been trapped either by the binaryframework of the imperial history or by the linear narrative of thenational history. However, the past of transnational subjects such as theSikh policemen in Southeast and East Asia cannot be properly studiedin both paradigms. This article tries to reconstruct the experience ofthose overseas Sikh servicemen by employing a transnational approach.Through connecting the colonial rule in India with what happened inSingapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries, this paper examines how the mechanism of acolonial network shaped the birth and development of the Sikh policeunits in different colonies and settlements.展开更多
文摘Students of modem Chinese history, and modern Shanghai history in particular, tend to view Shanghai as having been a lone islet during the Pacific War when it was cut off from other parts of the world. This article, however, argues that Shanghai was still well connected to areas under the control of the Japanese throughout the war. Using the Sikh community in Shanghai as a case, it demonstrates how the Indian National Army used both a Japanese-initiated military highway and the long-existing Indian diasporic network in Southeast and East Asia to facilitate a certain kind of mobilization. It further sheds light on how the Sikhs in Shanghai were influenced by and responded to the Indian National Army＇s endeavors.
文摘Studies on colonial history have long been trapped either by the binaryframework of the imperial history or by the linear narrative of thenational history. However, the past of transnational subjects such as theSikh policemen in Southeast and East Asia cannot be properly studiedin both paradigms. This article tries to reconstruct the experience ofthose overseas Sikh servicemen by employing a transnational approach.Through connecting the colonial rule in India with what happened inSingapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai in the late nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries, this paper examines how the mechanism of acolonial network shaped the birth and development of the Sikh policeunits in different colonies and settlements.
