Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t43.2

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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.