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Dr. Khatchig Mouradian

Dr. Khatchig Mouradian

Khatchig Mouradian is the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress and a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the project on Armenian Genocide Denial at the Global Institute for Advanced Studies, New York University. Mouradian is the author of The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918, published in 2021. The book has received the Syrian Studies Association “Honourable Mention 2021.” In 2020, Mouradian was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia University. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on late-Ottoman history, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review.

18 Comments

  1. Running for their life, our ancestors reached even to China, this is so interesting, God Bless Them.

  2. Thank you for writing this article. As an American of Armenian descent with ties to China (including time lived in Harbin and Shanghai), I’m excited to know that the Chinese streets we now walk and shops we now visit could once have been filled with Armenian voices. If anyone has specific addresses or locations where Armenians may have lived, worked, or worshiped in China, please let me know. I’ll try to find, photograph, and post those photos when I next visit China.

    • Hi, My dad lived in Shanghai from about 1920 to 1949. I had always believed that he fled the Russian revolution from Siberia. His name was Anotole Gnedovski. maybe he was actually of Armenian descent I do not know. Were you in Shanghai prior to 1949?
      Regards

      Frank

  3. Thank you very much for this fascinating article. Our “hairenagitsner” (fellow Armenians) have had to be very resourceful in order to survive all the evils which have befallen them through no fault of their own.

  4. was stationed in shinghia during the second world war and was friends of the Armenian bakery loved to go there and eat the fresh bread do not remember there names also was sent to nanking was station in a german school was station in a german school I shanghi haigalou and fochalou were the address that we gave the richshaw drivers

  5. @Greg Ovanessian, do you know if that Paul Tchakalian was married to a woman named Ashhan? My grandmother and father lived in the former French Concession (on rue Joffre) until after the war, and the Tchakalians were family friends, there and later in San Francisco (where I was born)…but I don’t know if it’s the same Paul Tchakalian. If you have any additional info, I’d be most appreciative! Cheers, Peter Rott (porkido@gmail.com)

    • Hi Peter,
      Not sure if I responded to your question previously. Paul and Ashken Tchakalian were my Godparents. They went from Shanghai to the Philippines to the US and lived in San Francisco. They are both deceased now but they have two sons, Albert (in San Diego) and Robert (lives in Mexico). Paul’s brother, Victor, also immigrated to the US and lived in San Francisco with his wife Nina and son Roubik. They too have passed on. If you have any more questions, please contact me.

    • Hello,
      I’m Victor’s great-grandaughter Jackie. My grandfather was Rouben Chakalian who was born in Shanghai and also immigrated to San Francisco. I love to hear about stories from his past! Please reach out to me if you have any questions as well.

  6. Great article. Thank you. I am the grandson of Krikor Z Yeghoyan. He lived with our family here in Fowler until his passing in 1963. He was an amazing man and most importantly a wonderful grandfather.

  7. 4 photos of Mr & Mrs Ara and Zépur Aznavorian in Kharbine :

    http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/fr/6histoire/par_pays/chine_kharbine01.htm

    Mrs Zepur Aznavorian, born Essayan in Trabzon, was the sister of my maternel grandmother. She was engaged in Tiflis and she met her fiancé in 1917 in Mandchouria

    Armenisn bibliographical sources (V-XIII centuries) on China / p.203 – p.204 – p.205 – p.206 – p.207 – p.208 – p.209 – p.210 – p.211 – p.212 / http://www.globalarmenianheritage-adic.fr/0hh/6hpj/asie/chine.htm

    ՊԲՀ – 1976-IV . pp. 203-212, Սվազյան, Հ. Ս. (1976), Ճեները և «Ճենաց աշխարհը» ըստ հայկական աղբյուրների.

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