Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t10.5

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Chen Hansheng focussed on South Asia research work in colleges and universities and research institutes in China, India and the United States of America. He published his *Development of China-India Friendly Relations* (*World Affairs*, Edition 19, 1952), *Indian National Economic Development Plan* (*World Affairs*, Edition 5, 1956), *Discovery of India of Nehru* (*Readers’ Monthly*, Edition 9, 1956), *Land Policy of Indian National Congress* (*Journal of International Studies*, Edition S2, 1959), *Indian Rural Class* (*Economic Studies*, Edition 11, 1961), *Development Process and Prospect of Indian Consortiums* (written in collaboration with Sun Peijun, South Asian Studies, Edition 04, 1983), among other articles. He also wrote the book *Indian Mogul Empire* (1964). Between 1948 and 1950, he completed the English manuscript of *Ecological and Agrarian Regions of South Asia: Circa 1930* in the United States of America based on his field visits in India during his studies and works in Indian Historical Society in 1940s and the 14-volume *Evidences Taken by the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India* published in Britain between 1927 and 1928. The book divides South Asia region into 21 economic zones based on topography, water conservancy, cultivation practice, land system and local general economic development situation and has important academic value. Its Chinese version on Indian and Pakistan Economic Regions (translated by Huang Jifang, Cao Wanru) was published by the Commercial Press in 1959, and its English version was published by Oxford University Press, Karachi in 1996.