Rebels, Traitors, Peacemakers True Stories of Love and Conflict in Indian-Chinese Relationships

NUANCED PORTRAITS OF THE LIVES OF CHINESE-INDIAN COUPLES AND STRUGGLES TO COPE WITHIN A POLARISED WORLD. HUMOROUS AND HEART-BREAKING WHILE DEMONSTRATING LOVE’ S POWER TO TRANSFORM SOCIETY. ‘ You shouldn’ t be with a Chinese girl… that should be my girl,’ a man in Singapore allegedly said this to a Chinese-Indian couple as he spat towards them. In a world brimming with such prejudice and cultural tensions, a remarkable phenomenon emerges— nearly one in five marriages in the US and in Singapore are now interracial. Rebels, Traitors, Peacemakers, explores this phenomenon through real stories of Indian-Chinese relationships, delving into the love and turmoil in such lives, where cultural boundaries are shattered and hearts are forged against all odds.

Shivaji Das is the author of six critically acclaimed travel, art and business books. He was the first prize winner for Time Magazine’ s Sub-Continental Drift Essay contest and shortlisted for Fair Australia Prize for Short Stories. Shivaji has been actively involved in migrant issues and is the conceptualiser and organiser for the acclaimed Migrant Worker and Refugee Poetry Contests in Singapore, Malaysia and Kenya and is the founder and director of the Global Migrant Festival (https://www.globalmigrantfestival.com/). Yolanda Yu is the author of Neighbour’ s Luck, a collection of short stories that was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Award 2020. She has received multiple literary awards, including DIX MOTS short story award by Alliance Francaise, Golden Point Award 2017 and 2015, and Singapore Tertiary Chinese Literature Award 2001. Yolanda’ s work has been featured in Singapore Writers’ Festival, various anthologies and magazines and newspapers such as LianHeZaoBao (Singapore), Cha Journal (Hong Kong), New York Times Travel, Zuopin Magazine and Guangxi Literature Magazine (China).