Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t71.1

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Mira Sinha-Bhattacharjea (April 18, 1930 - December 13, 2009) has been regarded as one of India’s most respected China experts who, with her sound scholarship and understanding of history, contributed to the re-shaping of public perception on India-China relations in the 1970s and 1980s. She joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1955 and served in the Indian Embassy in Beijing for nearly four years. Soon after she resigned from the service Bhattacharjea joined the Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies (now the Department of East Asian Studies) at the University of Delhi where she taught Chinese Foreign Policy and India-China Relations for over a quarter of a century.