Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t28: Yang Yunyuan
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Yang Yunyuan
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Yang Yunyuan (1914 - January 2007), an Indologist of Chinese origin, born in Xiangyin, Hu'nan Province.
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Yang Yunyuan was born into an intellectual family and his elder cousin, Chen Naiwei was Tan Yunshan's wife. He was acquainted with Tan Yunshan since he was young, and thus he was deeply influenced by him. He studied at the Changsha Changjun Middle School, Hu'nan First Normal School and the Central Political University in Nanjing. After graduation, he worked as a teacher in Guiyang and resumed his contacts with Tan Yun-shan that was interrupted due to the chaos caused by war. With the help of Tan Yunshan, he was able to get the invitation of Visva-Bharati University and the grants from the Ministry of Education, Republic Of China (ROC) to go to India. In early 1946, he became a visiting scholar of the Cheena Bhavan, Visva-Bharati University. During this period, he studied Indian culture, religion and language under the guidance of Prabodh Chandra Bagchi, Purushottam Vishvanath Bapat, among other Indian scholars, and also became interested in Buddhism. In late 1940s, he became the secretary of Luo Jialun, the first ROC ambassador to India. Since the 1950s, he taught Chinese at the School of Foreign Languages, Ministry of Defense, New Delhi. Afterwards, he went to the United States of America via Mexico, and became a teacher of University of California, Berkeley. His son, Anand Yang, President of Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington is an influential scholar in East Asian studies and expert in Indian history in the United States.
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His major works include ‘*Tagore Who Loved China with his Life*’ (Taiwan, ‘*Biographic Literature*’, Edition 6 of Volume 7, 1965), ‘*The Affair of Xu Zhimo and Tagore’s Visit to China*’ (Taiwan, ‘*Biographic Literature*’, Edition 2 of Volume 9, 1966), ‘*Interpreted Examples of Indian Words in Chinese Language*’ (Taiwan, ‘*Eastern Miscellany*’, Edition 7 of Volume 13, 1980), ‘*Instruction of Chinese and Indian Sages on Languages*’ (Taiwan, ‘*Chinese Culture Monthly*’, Edition 16, 1981), ‘*Generalissimo and Madam Chiang Kai-shek’s Visit to India and India’s Independence*’ (Hong Kong, ‘*Chu Hai Journal*’, Edition 16, 1988), among other treatises on India-China cultural exchanges.
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(*Jia Yan*)