Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t48.5
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t48.5
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He spent his lifetime on cultivating people in Bengali language, translating and spreading Bengali. He founded the first undergraduate programme of Bengali in China and taught undergraduate students for many years. He translated altogether 300,000 words of Rabindranath Tagore’s works. He was one of the main translators of the ‘*Collected Works of Tagore*’ and ‘*Complete Translation of Tagore’s Novels*’, and the latter has become the first book of Tagore directly translated from Bengali.