Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t25.4

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He started to translate and create literary works since he was young and began to publish poetries and translation works on newspaper supplement after he went to Peiping in 1930. ‘*Beach House and Cemetery*’ (1934) is translated by him from Esperanto. He was an important member of China’s new poetic circles in 1930s. In 1936, his first collection of poems ‘*Bat Collection*’ was published. He had other poem collections published like ‘*Rain and Snow*’ (1986), (《少年行》‘*Shao Nian Xing*’) ‘*Junior Line*’ (1998), the collection of autobiographical novels ‘*Trace of the Old Nest*’ (1985), and the memoirs ‘*Past Events in India*’ (1986). He wrote a number of collections of essays such as ‘*Swallows in Spring*’ (1987) and ‘*Collection of Old Learning and New Knowledge*’ (1991) with rich contents. In 1956, he joined the Chinese Writers’ Association and attended the 3rd and 4th Congress of the Chinese Literature and Art Workers. Apart from translating and creating literary works, he also engaged in studying aesthetics, semiology, anthropology, folklore, semantics, astronomy and science. His representative works include the translation work ‘*Popular Astronomy*’ (1938) and the collected papers ‘*Discussion on Arts and Sciences*’ (1986).