Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.104

v2.c11.104

In late 1980s, China sent visiting scholars specialising in Indian music to India for the first time, and they became Chinese experts in this field. Once back in China, they made outstanding contributions to research, popularisation and education of Indian music. In late 1980s and early 1990s, the Central Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music opened the courses of Indian music culture respectively. Since 1991, Shanghai Conservatory of Music successively recruited the master degree and doctoral candidates with Indian music as the research direction. Now, Indian music has become one of the important teaching contents in Chinese music colleges and universities at all levels.