Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s3.t5.10

v2.c11.s3.t5.10

The time of Chinese people’s studying Bharatamuni’s *Natyashastra* is only about half a century. Jin Kemu has ever used a chapter in the *Sanskrit Literature History* published in 1964 for introducing “literary theory”, of which the first section briefly introduces the content and significance of *Natyashastra*. The next year, he translated some important chapters of *Natyashastra* and put them into his book *‘Collected Translations of Theory of Classical Literature and Art’*. Huang Baosheng has discussed the origin of Sanskrit drama and made discussions on the different aspects of *Natyashastra*, deeply and systematically in the *Indian Classical Poetics*, published in 1993. He translated 11 chapters of *Natyashastra* and put them into the *Collection of Sanskrit Poetics Works*, published in 2008. *Natyashastra* is of guiding significance for Indian literature research in China, and Chinese artists of Indian dance and their teaching activities.