Deoli in Art and Media
AIDCI first publicly shared the details of Deoli Interment Camp in July 2012 at the Toronto Hakka Conference. Since then, survivors have come out to tell their stories, breaking over 50 years of silence. Publications ranging from The Atlantic to The BBC began to interview survivors to help tell the story of Deoli. More importantly, the community itself began to find ways to tell their own stories, sharing perspectives from within the camp, outside of it, and in the life to come after.
Projects
"Voices of Deoli" is a documentary about Deoli Internment Camp and life thereafter for its internees. It is currently premiering at festivals around the United States. This blog captures some of the perspectives of the film's subjects.
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This creative, living project documents and tells the story of the Indian-Chinese community through short films, photos, food blogs, and community-led storytelling.
Created by Aileen Chen, Iram Ghufran, Jennifer Liang, Jenny Pinto, Koel Chatterjee, Lawrence Liang, and our long-time friend, Vidura Jang Bahadur.
Following the history of Chinese migration to India, this documentary draws on the historical, political, and economic perspectives and memories of local Chinese-Indians. Spanning a 200-year period that examines the Chinese community's positionality during British colonization, independence, the Sino-Indian border conflict, and the years thereafter, the film also peers at community relationships with citizenship, national identity, and cultural hybridity.
Directed by Julian Lee and produced by Shefong Chung
In the News
By Dilip D'Souza, 2012
Article in The Caravan
Allan Tickell, 2022
Article in Conversation
By James Griffiths, 2012
Article in The Atlantic
By Monobina Gupta, 2020
Article in The Wire
By Joy Ma and Dilip D'Souza, 2020
Book excerpt published in The Print
By Dilip D'Souza, 2021
Article in scroll.in
By Sandip Roy, 2016
Article in BBC News
Books
By Ming Tung Hsieh, former ex-internee, 2011
By Rita Chowdhury, 2018
By Yin Marsh, former ex-internee, 2016
By Joy Ma and Dilip D'Souza, 2020
Scholarly Works
By Kwai-yun Li, 2011
Thesis at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education University of Toronto
Joita Das, 2023
Conference Paper for Comparative Asian Studies
Zhang Xing, 2020
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Sandeep Ray, 2023
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