Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t23: Fang Hao
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t23
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Fang Hao
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Fang Hao (September 24, 1910 - December 20, 1980) Born in Hangxian County (present day Hangzhou), Zhejiang Province, Fang was a Chinese historian. He styled himself as Jieren with pen names of Maolu, Juechen, Shenglao.
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Yu Yu
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Born in an Anglican family, he was admitted by the Catholic pre-monastery of Jiaxing in 1921 and by St. Paul Theology & Philosophy Institute of Ningbo in 1929. He was promoted to be a priest (godfather) in 1935, hired as a professor by the Department of History and Geography of Zhejiang University in 1941 and the Department of History of National Taiwan University in 1949. In 1969, he was appointed as the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences of National Chengchi University. He was elected to be an academician of ‘Academia Sinica’, with major research directions of Chinese and Western communication history, history of the Song Dynasty and history of religions in 1974. His major works include *Symposium of Chinese and
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Fang Hao
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*Western Cultural Communication History*, volume I (1944), *History of the Song Dynasty* (1954), *Chinese and Western Communication History* (1954), *Biographies of Chinese Catholic History* (1967) and *The Collected Works of Fang Hao Revised and Edited by the Author on 60th Birthday* (1969), wherein *Chinese and Western Communication History* describes in details the development trace of prehistoric and modern communication history between China and foreign countries and analyses the relations in the aspects of nation, religion, culture, traffic, politics and trade. The chapters of ‘The Communication between China and India during Han Dynasty’, ‘The Visit to India Leading by Faxian and the Contribution’, ‘The Three Routes to the West Recorded by Jia Dan’, ‘The Buddhist Relations between China and Central Asia during Sui and Tang Dynasties’, ‘The Introduced Indian Academics during Sui and Tang Dynasties’ and ‘The Political Relations between India and China, Persia and Arab during Tang and Song Dynasties’ textually researched the communication between China and India from the periods of Qin and Han to those of Tang and Song, with detailed data and precise analysis, contributing to the research of the communication history of the two countries.
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(*Zhang Ran*)