Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t38: Sun Peijun
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t38
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Sun Peijun
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Sun Peijun (December 1, 1925 - July 7, 2010), Chinese scholar of Indian economic and political studies. He was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He was a researcher of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and used to serve as the Head of the Institute of South Asian Studies, CASS, Head of the Institute of South Asian and Southeast Asian Studies, CASS, President of Chinese Association for South Asian Studies and Editor-in-Chief of South Asian Studies.
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*Sun Peijun delivering a talk at a forum on academic exchange*
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Sun Peijun was admitted to the Department of Financial Management of Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1946, and worked at the headquarters of Bank of China after graduation in 1950. He was the Deputy Director of Bank of China, Calcutta Branch in 1951. In 1953, he returned to China and successively worked with the Institute for International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC (MOFA), the Department of Asian Affairs
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[Figure: *'Hindi Grammar' (Yindiyu yufa)* *edited by Yin Hongyuan*]
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of MOFA, the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, International Liaison Department, the Institute for World Economics, CASS, the Institute of South Asian Studies co-founded by CASS and Peking University, and the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CASS where he mainly engaged in Indian economic, social and political studies.
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In 1978, he worked together with Ji Xianlin and Huang Xinchuan to establish the Institute of South Asian Studies under the initiative of CASS and Peking University, and later established the Chinese Association for South Asian Studies. He also founded the academic journal, *South Asian Studies*
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The Compared Research on Economic Development between China and India (Zhongyin jingji fazhan bijiao yanjiu), edited by Sun Peijun, front cover
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and established the Department of South Asia in the Graduate School of CASS to cultivate postgraduates and doctoral students. He trained many talents in South Sian studies for China. He also made several visits to India.
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His main academic works include Indian Monopolized Consortium (1984), Studies on the Economic Development Strategy of South Asian Countries (1990), India’s National Conditions and Comprehensive National Strength (2001) and Comparative Studies on the Economic Development of China and India (2007). Comparative Studies on the Economic Development of China and India gives an overview of the achievements and experiences of these two countries in all areas of national economy over the past four decades, and represents the first monograph comparing China and India in economic development.
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(*Li Baolong*)