Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s2.t5.20
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c14.s2.t5.20
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On the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Chinese government sent a 60 member Chinese cultural delegation to visit India in 1954. The delegation was led by the Deputy Minister of Culture Zheng Zhenduo and the deputy head of the delegation was Zhou Erfu, Deputy Minister of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department. This delegation included troupes of music, dance and Chinese opera with Dai Ailian, the famous Chinese ballerina, as its Art Director. This represented a significant step in developing people-to-people relations between India and China in the early 1950s.