Those Four Years

Subtitle: 
South Asia Lecture Series
Activity Type: 
Film
Presenter: 
Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu
Date: 
Monday, April 3, 2023 - 15:00 to 17:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
WW Posvar Hall 3415

"Those 4 Years" is an amazing journey into the lives of those Chinese who came to India around the middle of the 19th century… speaking a language unknown to their neighbours when they first arrived. The film journeys across three countries and reams of colonial office records to retrace the places those people came from, the means and mode of their arrival, and how many of them ended up making India their home. It is a history of people, plants and places - as it catalogues their contributions to plantations, locates places and sites associated with their earliest arrival and stay and, more remarkably, manages to locate some of the descendants of those Chinese who arrived in India over 150 years ago. After the film screening, there will be a Q&A with the film's creator, Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu.

UCIS Unit: 
Asian Studies Center
Other Pitt Sponsors: 
The World History Center
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
Yes