Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t44.1

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Liu Guonan (1931-November 29, 1987) was a Chinese Indologist and a professor at Peking University. Born in Xixiang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province. Liu Guonan studied successively in Xixiang Middle School, Nanzheng High School and Leyu High School from 1945 to 1951. He was admitted to Northwest University in 1951 and then transferred to the Department of Oriental Languages at Peking University to study Hindi. In 1954, he was sponsored by the government to study in University of Delhi and thereafter in Banaras Hindu University in India. In 1958, he returned to China to become a teacher in the Department of Oriental Languages at Peking University. He was transferred to the Institute of South Asian Studies co-founded by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University in 1980 and was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies in Peking University in 1985.