Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t55.13

v2.c15.s2.t55.13

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Tan Yun-shan came back to China to receive the “Victory Order” given by the Nationalist government for his contribution. In 1947, he returned to China to establish the Datong School in Changsha. In 1948, he was appointed the cultural commissioner by the National Government and went back to India and worked in Visva-Bharati University. On April 1, 1950, China and India formally established diplomatic relations. Tan Yun-shan wrote a letter to Mao Zedong as an old schoolfellow of Changsha First Normal School. In 1952, Yuan Zhongxian, the then Chinese ambassador to India visited Tan Yun-shan in Shantiniketan, and again made Tan Yun-shan a man of the day for India-China cultural exchanges.