Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t27: Zhu Jieqin
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t27
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Zhu Jieqin
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Zhu Jieqin (1913-1990) was a Chinese scholar who studied the history of Sino-foreign relations. He was born in Guangzhou and his birthplace was Shunde, Guangdong Province.
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Zhu Jieqin graduated from the Institute of Literature and History of Zhongshan University, and used to teach at Guangzhou Fine Arts School and Zhongshan University. Between 1940 and 1945, he taught Indian history successively at Nanyang Research Institute, Chongqing and Oriental Chinese Language and Literature School, Yunnan. In 1945, he went to Yunnan to teaching at Yunnan University. In 1952, he was transferred back to Guangzhou and worked as a Professor of the Department of History of Zhongshan University. As of 1958, he worked as Professor of the History Department, and Department Dean of Ji'nan University. In 1970, Ji'nan University closed, so he went to the History Department of South China Normal University and the History Department of Zhongshan University in succession. Till 1978, he returned to teach at Ji'nan University. In 1981, he founded the Overseas Chinese Institute, Ji'nan University and served as the director of the institute. In 1984, Ji'nan University opened the doctoral programme for Specialised History (history of Sino-Foreign Relations), Zhu Jieqin became a doctoral supervisor. He used to be a researcher of the Institute of South Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Vice President of the first and second sessions of Chinese Association for South Asian Studies, Executive Director of China Society of History, President of
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Zhu Jieqin
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the Institute of China Overseas Traffic History and President of the Council of China Society for Southeast Asian Studies.
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He made great contributions to the studies in the history of Sino-Foreign relations, history of overseas Chinese and history of South Asia. His treatises and translation works totaled over 20 pieces. '*The Translation of History of Cultural Exchange between China and the West*' (1940) included seven of his translation works and two of his treatises, including ‘The Commerce between the Roman Empire and India’ (by M. P. Charlesworth) and ‘*The Mohammedans of China: When, and How, They First Came*’ (by Isaac Mason). Since 1978, he began to participate in annotating the Indian part of ‘*Commentary on Great Tang Records on the Western Regions*’ (1985). He proofed and edited 11 types of books and journals, including ‘*A Translation Series of the History of Sino-Foreign Relations*’ (1984) and ‘*Maritime History Studies*’ (start publication in 1978). He published over 120 essays, including ‘*Maritime Traffic Route between China and Southeast Asia and South Asia in the Han Dynasty* (Maritime History Studies’, Edition 3, 1981), ‘*The Gupta Period of India* (*History Teaching*, Edition 12, 1956), ‘*Origin of British East India Company and Review on Its Trade with China* (*Sin Chew Daily*, supplement of the history and geography of South Sea, May 1940), ‘*Indo-China in Cultural Exchanges* (*Journal of South Sea Society*, Edition 1 of Volume 5, June 1948).
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(*Liu Lei*)