Indians in China
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Mainland China: 56,050+ (2024 estimates)[1][2] Hong Kong: 28,600 | |
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The Indians in China are migrants from India to China and their descendants. Historically, Indians played a major role in disseminating
History
Antiquity and Middle Ages
In the
Aurel Stein discovered 5 letters written in Sogdian known as the "Ancient Letters" in an abandoned watchtower near Dunhuang in 1907. A letter in the collection was written by the Sogdian Nanai-vandak addressed to Sogdians back home in Samarkand informing them about a mass rebellion by Xiongnu Hun rebels against their Han Chinese rulers of the Western Jin dynasty informing his people that every single one of the diaspora Sogdians and Indians in the Chinese Western Jin capital Luoyang died of starvation due to the uprising by the rebellious Xiongnu, who were formerly subjects of the Han Chinese. The Han Chinese emperor abandoned Luoyang when it came under siege by the Xiongnu rebels and his palace was burned down.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
During the Yuan dynasty there was also a large Tamil Indian community in
Colonial era
Indians (as well as people from elsewhere in the Portuguese colonial empire) were among the crew of the Portuguese ships trading on the Chinese coast beginning in the sixteenth century. For example, Galeote Pereira, one of the Portuguese smugglers captured off the Fujian coast in 1549 and exiled to Guangxi, mentions Gujarati servants among his companions.[16] In the same century Indians from former Portuguese Indian Colonies (notably Goa) settled in Macau in small numbers. [17]
The history of the Indians in Hong Kong could be drawn back since the day of
People's Republic of China (mainland China)
The number in the mainland is growing rapidly with the
Medical students
There are a total 23,000 Indian students in China in 2019 and among them 21,000 study medicine.[23] Students from Andhra Pradesh are particularly well represented with 5,000 medical students in China reported in 2011.[24][25]
The growth of Indian medical students at Chinese medical universities started in 2003 after the Medical Council of India (MCI) accepted Chinese medical degrees for qualification in India. For the academic year 2019–20, MCI recognised English language degrees from 45 universities and colleges in China.[23] Chinese medical schools are attractive because of better infrastructure, labs and equipment, and lower cost with annual tuition around $4,000 in 2020, about half of the cost of private medical schools in India.[23]
Hong Kong
Most Indians stepped into the fields like international companies,
Republic of China (Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu)
Indian culture
The Indian Embassy has been organising the Festival of India in China over the years. An important component of it has been the food festivals held in Indian restaurants, spread over nearly 45 Chinese cities.
Notable people
Ancient
- Amoghavajra – One of the most politically powerful Buddhist monks in Chinese history.
- Bodhidharma – founder of shaolin monastery and zen Buddhism in China.
- Bodhiruci – Buddhist monk and esoteric master from India.
- Batuo – First abbot of Shaolin Monastery.
- Kumārajīva – Kuchean Buddhist monk.
- Lingyin temple.
- Gautama Siddha – Chinese translator, astronomer, astrologer and compiler.
See also
- Dwarkanath Kotnis – One of five Indian physicians dispatched to China during the Second Sino-Japanese War
- Chinas
- Chinese people in India
- Chindian people
- Chindian cuisine
- Indians in Korea
- Hinduism in China
- Pakistanis in China
- Sino-Indian relations
References
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- ^ Tan Chung (1998). A Sino-Indian Perspective for India-China Understanding. Archived 2007-06-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Sogdian Ancient Letters 1, 2, 3, and 5". Silk Road Seattle – University of Washington. Translated by Sims-Williams, Nicholas.
- ^ Norman, Jeremy. "Aurel Stein Discovers the Sogdian "Ancient Letters" 313 CE to 314 CE". History of Information.
- ^ Sogdian Ancient Letter No. 3. Reproduced from Susan Whitfield (ed.), The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith (2004) p. 248.
- ^ "Ancient Letters". The Sogdians – Influencers on the Silk Roads. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ Keramidas, Kimon. "Sogdian Ancient Letter III: Letter to Nanaidhat". NYU. Telling the Sogdian Story: A Freer/Sackler Digital Exhibition Project.
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- ^ a b c "Why Indian students will want to study medicine in China despite coronavirus". The Print. 17 February 2020.
- ^ "Indian doctors, made abroad". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 31 August 2009. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012.
- ^ "Medical student from Andhra Pradesh commits suicide in China university". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 21 May 2011. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011.
- ^ Kwok S. T., Narain, K. (2003).Co-Prosperity in Cross-Culturalism: Indians in Hong Kong.P.60