Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.t1.3

v2.c15.t1.3

In 1917, Liang Shuming, only 24-year-old, was appointed by Cai Yuanpei to teach Indian philosophy at Peking University. This was the earliest course related with India in modern China universities, marking the beginning of modern Indian studies in China. In 1920s and 1930s, for the people who opened the courses of Indian studies in China institutions of higher education there were also Russian scholar Alexander von Stael-Holstein, Buddhism and Indian philosophy scholar Tang Yongtong from Peking University, Chen Yinke who taught Buddhist scriptures translation literature at Tsinghua University as well as China and western traffic history scholar Xiang Da, etc.