Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s3.t15.6

v2.c10.s3.t15.6

Study on ‘*Sūrsāgar*’ in China started in the 1980s, when for the first time in China, Professor Liu Anwu of the Department of Eastern Languages at Peking University published his essay ‘*Sūrdās, the Mahakavi of 16ᵗʰ Century India* in *Foreign Literature Studies*’, introducing the poet Sūrdās’ life and his work ‘*Sūrsāgar*’ in detail. Henceforth, in ‘*History of Hindi Literature in India*’ (1987), ‘*History of Ancient Indian Literature*’ (1991) and ‘*Indian Religious Literature in Medieval Times*’ (2011), several verses of ‘*Sūrsāgar*’ were chosen to be translated into Chinese, along with the introduction of Sūrdās’ life and works. In 2011, the project of ‘Translation and Study of *Sūrsāgar*’, led by Professor Jiang Jingkui of the Department of South Asian Studies at Peking University, was approved as the major project of key research institute of social science and humanities, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. For Chinese academia, it is another major project focussed on medieval Indian literature after the Chinese translation of ‘*Rāmcaritmānas*’. The project is in progress at present.