Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s2.t11.2

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In March 1957, Kamala and her sister Radha Lakshman visited China with Indian cultural delegation. Their Bharatanatyam performance received much praise from Chinese audiences. The famous writer Bingxin wrote the article *Impressions of Watching the Dance* to present to Lakshman sisters. She used the “flying beauty” to describe their changing dancing postures, and more graceful rhetoric words and vivid language to describe the beautiful and long-standing culture and art of India. *Impressions of Watching the Dance* was selected into Chinese textbook for grade seven. The delegation visited Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou successively. On April 5, Lakshman sisters bid a