Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t24.7

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Ji Xianlin began to write, translate and review literature from a very young age. Between 1928 and 1929, he created the short stories *The Rationale of a So Called Civilized Man*, *Bachelor of Medicine* and *Watching Opera* that are published on Tianjin *Yishi Daily* with “Xi Bu” as the pen name. In 1930, he translated essays of Иван Сергеевич Тургенев including *The Old Woman*, *The End of The World*, *The Old Man* and *How Beautiful, How Fresh Were the Roses* and had them published on *Shandong National News-Baotu Weekly* and Tianjin *Yishi Daily*, successively. Between 1933 and 1934, he made comments on *Sons*, novel of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Ba Jin’s novel *The Family* and Lao She’s *The Divorce* and published the comments on Tianjin *Ta-Kung-Pao Literary Supplement*. In 1955, he translated German works *Anna Seghers Collection of Short Stories*. In 1980, he published successively *Impression of India* (1980), *Collection of Essays Written in the Lang Run Garden* (1981), *Random Thoughts on Life* (1996), *Dreaming by the Weiming Lake* (1998), *Spring Returns to Yanyuan* (2000), *New Writings of a Nonagenarian* (2002), *Miscellaneous Essays on Sickbed* (2007), and many essays, memoirs and essay collections. Over the decades, he never stopped working and created works that have reached more than one million words.