Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t39.2

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Huang Xinchuan was born into a merchant family in Xupu, a famous historic and cultural city. In 1946, he was admitted to School of Literature, Hangchow University, and received education in Western literature and philosophy. In 1956, he joined the Philosophy Department of Peking University as a licentiate graduate majoring in Foreign Philosophy, studied Western philosophy and Indian philosophy under philosophers including Ren Hua, Tang Yongtong, Zhu Qianzhi and Hong Qian, and also studied Greek and Sanskrit at the same time. In 1958, he became a lecturer of the Philosophy Department of Peking University after graduation to teach Western, Indian and Japanese philosophy history, among other special subjects. In 1964, he started to work in the Institute of World Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In 1978, be became the Deputy Director of China’s South Asia Research Institute, co-founded by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University. In 1988, he served as Director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Afterwards, he used to serve as an honourary Dean of the Oriental Culture Research