Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t20.10

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As an important figure in the history of cultural exchange between China and India, his thoughts and works are receiving more and more attention from academic circles in China and India. In 2006, the “Year of India-China Friendship”, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences collected his writings and published, through East China Normal University Press, *The Collection of Works of Xu Fancheng*, which consists of four volumes of his works, 12 volumes of his translations and about 6.5 million Chinese characters. In October 2010, Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry celebrated the 101ˢᵗ anniversary of his birth, and exhibited a number of paintings that he drew while in India.