Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s2.t10.10

v2.c11.s2.t10.10

**Influence in China** Chen Ziming received Ravi Shankar in Beijing, climbing Badaling Great Wall together with him, and was apprenticed to him. Afterwards, he suggested Chen Ziming to come to India to personally experience the Samadhi of Indian classical music. From then on, Ziming had great interest in Indian music and started to bring Indian music into the course of “World Folk Music” taught by him in early 1980s. In 1986, he assigned his student An Ping to study in India, the fellow traveller including Indian music expert, and Professor Zhao Jiazi of Shanghai Conservatory of Music.