Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t30.2

v2.c15.s2.t30.2

Jao Tsung-I was born in Chao’an County (present day Xiangqiao District, Chaozhou City), Guangdong Province. He graduated from Shanghai Law & Political Science College and returned to Chaozhou to serve as the Editor-in-Chief of ‘*Yuenan News*’ after graduation. He studied under his father since he was a child. In 1932, he started to compile his father, Rao E’s unfinished manuscript, ‘*A Record of Literature and Arts in Chaozhou*’, and finished it three years later. He published this in ‘*Lingnan Journal*’, which became a cornerstone for his academic career. In 1935, he became a probation teacher of the Chinese classes at Hanshan Normal University, and was offered to serve as an Editor of the History Compilation Bureau of Guangdong, Sun Yat-sen University. In