Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s3.t7.30

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From 1980 to 1984, People's Literature Publishing House successively published *Ramayana* translated from a corrected Sanskrit edition. There are seven chapters and it consists of eight colossal volumes and nearly 90,000 lines, adopts a form of folk song and provides detailed notes, and thus reproduces the charm of the original poem. Ji Xianlin commenced the translation in 1973, originally only as a means to pass the time, and did not take it as a conscious effort until the end of the Cultural Revolution. After a decade of unusual diligence, he finished the final part of the whole works in early 1983. In the course of this, Ji Xianlin published *A Preliminary Probe into the Ramayana* (1979) and several articles, including *Ramayana in China*.