China-India Project at Hong Kong University

I recently reviewed a paper published by the Centre of Asian Studies at Hong Kong University by Professor B.M. Jain. He is one of the scholars associated with this new project which may be a useful resource for looking at Sino-Indian bilateral relations specifically. Indeed, their introduction echoes my thoughts on the state of relations:

Given their respective importance to Asia and the world, it is remarkable that there has been so little scholarly or social interaction between these two polities in recent decades. The two sides have been almost cut off from each other since the 1962 Sino-Indian War.

Even more interestingly, Hong Kong remains the main link to India from the Chinese mainland, which reveals much about Hong Kong's cosmopolitan character as well as frozen relations across the Himalayas. [link]

The more of these resources I discover, the more I realized that the issues are being discussed in such places, including the US Institute of Peace which held a seminar on the state of Sino-Indian bilateral relations in October 2003 [link]. The Himalayan angle is key to this, but I feel that I must narrow my research further down to the people of the borderlands.