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Author Cao Yin discusses the historical representation of Sikhs and how they’re part of a shared global history. SHANGHAI — Walking down Fuzhou Road near Shanghai’s waterfront, Cao Yin tries to pinpoint the exact spot where one of the city’s highest-ranking and most influential Sikh policemen...

As imperial powers carved out the history of Shanghai after the Opium Wars of China in the 1850s, a sizeable part of that history was played out by the Sikh community here. Brought in to lord over the local populace by British India, the Sikhs - with their tall, well-built stature, beards and...

BORN to a famed family in what is today Yunnan Province in Southwest China in 1371, Zheng He was originally surnamed Ma. His family was Muslim and his father and grandfather once travelled on a pilgrimage to Mecca...