Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.t2.5

v2.c15.t2.5

The second layer was formed through the popular support for China's war against Japanese aggression and for the emerging Chinese communist movement. The ideological influence of China on the left movement in India carried through the post-1962 period and exercised a considerable influence in turning people to the study of China in the sixties and seventies. The third layer emerged out of the concern of the government to develop expertise on China after 1962. These layers overlap and have helped to create the context within which China Studies was established and is developing in the universities. The Ford Foundation, because of US interest in learning about China, helped to provide crucial funding through library grants and scholarships to send scholars to study in American universities. Direct contact either with China or Taiwan was not possible on any meaningful basis in the academic sphere at that time.