Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t47: Shan Yun
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Shan Yun
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Shan Yun (May 4, 1935 - April 17, 2003) was a Chinese Indologist and Professor of Peking University. Born in Huangxian County, Shandong Province, Shan Yun took admission in the Oriental Languages Department of Peking University to major in Hindi and learned Urdu from September 1954 in Shanghai. He stayed back in the university to teach and research Urdu after graduation in July 1958, and became one of the founders of the Urdu language courses. He took up the compilation of the Basic Course of Urdu (totally five books in three volumes, 1991), A Reader of Urdu (1997) and Grammar of Urdu (2001), and built the complete teaching system for Urdu. In addition, he translated several works such as Prostitute Traitor (1990) and Literary History of Urdu (1993), and wrote a dozen articles about the research of Urdu language and literature such as Modern Urdu Poems at A Glance, Glimpses on Urdu Short Stories, On the Famous Story Failure Written by Krishan Chander, On Premchand and Iqbal and His Poems.
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'Wuerdu yu wenxue shi' (History of Urdu literature) edited by Shan Yun
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(*Zhang Minyu*)