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Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t43: Jin Dinghan

Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t43

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Jin Dinghan

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Jin Dinghan (September 13, 1930 - ) is a Chinese Indologist and an expert in translation. His family was originally from Zhuji in Zhejiang Province. Born in Changsha, Hu’nan Province, he is a professor in the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature of Peking University.

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Jin Dinghan was born into a family of scholars. His uncle, Jin Yuelin was a Chinese philosopher and logician. In 1955, Jin Dinghan graduated from the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature of Peking University and became one of the first batch of Hindi scholars cultivated in China. After graduation, he stayed and taught at the university and later became a professor of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. At the same time, he held a concurrent post of researcher of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and was engaged in teaching and scientific research of Hindi. He has been invited to give lectures at University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Banaras Hindu University, colleges and universities of Britain, the United States, the Netherlands and Japan. He was the Executive President of the 13ᵗʰ International Ramayana Conference, Chairman of the 16ᵗʰ International Ramayana Conference, President of the 10ᵗʰ International Hindi Symposium and a consultant of Chinese Association for South Asian Studies. In 1993, he was given the Han Suyin-Vincent Ratnaswamy Sino-Indian Friendship Award.

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Jin Dinghan

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In the same year, he was conferred the ‘World Hindi Honorary Award’ by Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then President of India. In 1999, he was awarded the Vishwa Tulsi Samman by Hindu University of America. On June 15, 2001, the then President of India, Kocheril Raman Narayanan conferred on him the Dr. George Grierson Award as a commendation for his contributions in teaching and researches of Hindi and in Sino-Indian cultural exchanges.

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He independently compiled the ‘*Hindi Dictionary of Chinese Idioms*’ (1988), and was part of the compilation team of the ‘*Hindi-Chinese Dictionary*’ (2000) and ‘*Basic Course in Hindi*’ (1992). His main translation works include ‘Nirmala’ (1959), one of the representative works of modern Indian realistic writer Munshi Premchand, ‘*Rāmacaritamānas*’ (1988), a classical work of Hindi in Medieval India and ‘*Jhutha Sach*’ (2000, co-translation), a full-length novel of Indian writer Yashpal. His translation and introduction of ‘*Rāmacaritamānas*’ has enriched Chinese studies on the devotional literature and the belief in Rama in Hinduism in medieval India. Besides, he has published dozens of his Chinese and English dissertations on domestic and foreign publications, including ‘*Tulasidas, Ramayana and China*’ and ‘*Tulsidas and Confucius*’.

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*(Jiang Jingkui, Jia Yan)*

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