Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t27.5

v2.c15.s2.t27.5

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).