Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.112

v2.c11.112

Since 1980s, China began to send students and visiting scholars to India to learn Indian dance. Chinese dancers Zhang Jun and Liu Youlan learned classical dance in India. Once home, Zhang Jun successively taught at the Beijing Dance Academy and China Oriental Performing Arts Group Corporation, and set up numerous training classes of Indian classical dance with more than 500 students, making great contribution to the spread of Indian dance art in China. Zhang Jun was the first to introduce the Indian dance system to the Chinese.