Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t24.2

v2.c15.s2.t24.2

Ji Xianlin was born into a peasant family and was given the name of “Ji Baoshan” and his infant name was “Shuang Xi”. In 1917, he began to study in a home school with a private tutor and was renamed “Ji Xianlin”. In 1923, he was admitted to Jinan Zhengyi Middle School. In 1926, he graduated from the middle school and studied in the high school. After half a year, he was transferred to the high school attached to Shandong University and began to learn German. He stopped schooling for one year between 1928 and 1929 when Japanese troops occupied Ji’nan. In February 1929, he was transferred to Shandong Jinan No.1 High School. In 1930, he was admitted to Tsinghua University where he majored in German in the Western Literature Department. During his studies here, he also took optional courses in the literature of Buddhist scriptures translated by Chen Yinque’s, Zhu Guangqian’s psychology of literature and art,