This book is about how the activities of the Chinese sojourners in wartime India caused great concerns to the British colonial regime and the Chinese Nationalist government alike and how these sojourners responded to the surveillance, discipline, and check imposed by the governments.

Yin Cao is Associate Professor and Cyrus Tang Scholar in the department of history at Tsinghua University. He works on modern Indian history, global history, and inter-Asian connections. He is the author of 'From Policemen to Revolutionaries: A Sikh Diaspora in Global Shanghai, 1885-1945'.

• 1: Yin Cao: Introduction: The Great Game Mentalities against the State-Building Ambitions


• 2: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Seamen's Wartime Service Corps


• 3: The Wartime India-China Smuggling


• 4: Chinese Deserters in the British Raj


• 5: The Evacuation of the Lahore Elementary Flying Training School


• 6: Conclusion: Inheriting the Colonial Anxieties