Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t68.2

v2.c15.s2.t68.2

Tan Chung was born in 1929 in the Johor State of Malaysia and received primary education in Xiang Xiang Tao Kan Elementary School in Hunan, China, after which he completed his schooling in the Lantian Junior School and the National Teacher’s College affiliated to the Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University. Although he visited India in 1929 with his mother as an infant, it was in 1955 that he moved to India where he graduated with Master’s degree from Visva- Bharati, and was subsequently awarded PhD degree in History from the University of Delhi.