Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t66: Narayan Chandra Sen
Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t66
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Narayan Chandra Sen
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Narayan Chandra Sen is a Chinese language expert and scholar of contemporary Chinese affairs who has published many books on modern China and translated many Chinese short stories into Bengali language. N C Sen was born in 1928 in a village in present day Bangladesh. He received his M. A. from the Calcutta University, India. Then after some language training in Cheena Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, he went to China on a government scholarship in 1955 and stayed there from January 1955 to August 1958 as a research scholar in the Department of Chinese Language & Literature of Beijing University. He worked on Lu Xun under the guidance of Prof. Wang Yao, a specialist on Lu Xun and modern Chinese literature. On his return to India, Mr. Sen taught Chinese in Cheena Bhavan, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, Calcutta University and then in JNU, New Delhi for some time. He also acted as head of the Chinese programme of the external service division of All India Radio, New Delhi from September 1968 to February 1982. Thereafter he joined the Foreign Language Press, Beijing, during which period he published two books - “Rural Economy and Development in China” in 1990 and “Mao Zedong-the Man” in 1996. Further to his credit, he published many books of translation titled “Naya Chiner Galpa Sankalan” (Collection of Short Stories of modern China) in a series from Chinese to Bengali and another book on “Mao-bad and Bharat-China Bouddha Darshan (Maoism and India-China Buddhist Philosophy) in Bengali.
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The short-story books that he has brought out in Bengali are of much interest and value for all the lovers of Chinese literature of Bangaladesh and West Bengal of our country. His book on Maoism is too a scholarly work that deserves much attention of the academic community.
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*(Arttatrana Nayak)*