Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t68.5

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of the Ministry of Defence, India, till 1963. He joined University of Delhi as a Lecturer of Chinese language in 1964 and taught there till 1978. During his years in the University of Delhi he joined as the founding teacher at the Center for Chinese Studies in 1964, which, with a grant from the Ford Foundation evolved into the Department of Chinese Studies and then the Department of East Asian Studies. From 1978, Tan Chung taught Chinese language at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. During this period, he came to be the driving force of the department as he almost single-handedly developed the syllabus and course material for the students of Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree; he also served as the Chairperson of the Centre for African and Asian Languages in School of Languages of Jawaharlal Nehru University as the Chinese Language programme was a part this Centre. He retired from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1994.