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his philosophy and social thought. In 1980s, Xu Fancheng, who went to India to study and practiced many years in Aurobindo monastery, returned to China and was specialised in the research work on Aurobindo philosophy. He translated a lot of books related with Aurobindo’s philosophy and yoga, which included the Aurobindo’s representative philosophical masterpiece *The Life Divine* (1984), *On Yoga* (1988), *Integral Yoga* (2005), *Yoga Basics* (2005), *Yoga Proverbs* (2005), *Yoga Letter Set* (2005) and so on. The translation of these writings made Aurobindo’s philosophy and yoga thought widely spread in China. In addition, Chinese scholars also studied Aurobindo philosophy. Zhu Mingzhong has published many papers and books related with Aurobindo's philosophy, such as Aurobindo's Social Darwinism (Philosophical Researches 1983 No. 3), Aurobindo's Spiritual Evolution Philosophy (*Social Science Front Bimonthly* 1983 No. 2), monograph *Aurobindo Ghose* (1994), *Master Essentials - Aurobindo* (2009) and so on.