Cultural perspective
Since the beginning of the last century, China and India, which have also suffered from Western colonization and have a long cultural tradition, almost started to become interested in each other.Among them, Chinese intellectuals are based on political considerations and are extremely keen on the Indian national rejuvenation movement.By 1927, Tagore visited Singapore, and the famous Mr. Tan Yunshan saw one of them, and was invited to teach to the Indian International University founded by Tagore, and laid the foundation for the university's Chinese college and India's Chinese studies.
With the difficult planning of Tan Yunshan, Tagore, etc., and the support of the Republic of China Cai Yuanpei, Dai Jitao and others, the China -India Society was established in 1934.This Society has presented more than 100,000 books to India's India -Chinese Society and Indian International University, and established Chinese Chinese and Buddhist lectures in Indian universities. Especially in 1937, a Chinese college was established in the Indian International University.Tan Yunshan is the dean, which has greatly promoted India's Chinese studies.
Tan Yunshan himself also successfully promoted Chiang Kai -shek's visit to India during the most difficult period of China's anti -Japanese war in 1942.Since 1944, the two sides have had government scholars' exchange projects. Among them, in 1948, Prabodhi Chandra Bagachi went to Peking University as Sanskrit and Hindu teaching seats.This situation lasted until the brief honeymoon period between the two countries in the 1950s, and a border war eventually completely fell below the freezing point.
Taking the Sino -Indian war as the watershed, India's Chinese studies have shown great changes, that is, with Chinese literature and culture as the object, it has transferred to Sino -Indian relations and practical issues as the main object.This war made the Indian government's systematic and practicality of Chinese research, and because of the support of the Ford Foundation, Chinese scholars in India have adopted the regional research orientation of Europe and the United States since then to study the politics of contemporary China, andEconomy and culture.
Therefore, compared with the old literature and cultural studies in the past, many Chinese scholars have even lost their basic reading ability of Chinese literature.The purpose of its research is also due to the consideration of political strategy.In addition to the Department of Research of China and Japan at the University of Delhi and the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Nahru, there are few complete Chinese studies research system construction, because of their lack of grasping first -hand materialsThe overall research level has been greatly limited.
In contrast, Chinese Hindu studies have been renewed because of the most difficult period of the Cultural Revolution, because Ji Xianlin, Kim Kemu and others insisted on the insistence.Since the 1980s and 1990s, it was carried out in Peking University, Renmin University, Fudan University, the Asia Pacific Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and many of the South Asia Institute of the Social Sciences, and obtained in many areasMake a long -term progress.As for the mastery of each other's language, the most basic situation of this academic research, Chinese Indian studies have deepened more than India's Chinese studies.This academic ignoring also reflects the perception and attitude of the two countries on each other.
In general, Chinese folks may have a lot of ignoring and underestimating to India, but they are not too hostile to India, so we can see that India's films have been unobstructed in China in recent years.Conversely, Indian folk attitude towards China is relatively relatively staying in the past, and lacks timely attention to real development, and has a considerable degree of distrust and hostility.
In recent days, we have just ended an international meeting about Xuanzang and China -India exchanges that have been prepared for four months. At the meeting, I invited more than 30 top overseas scholars with my colleagues.It's rare.The most surprising thing is this international conference. We have received the full support of Western Towns, a small city of western town with a high degree of economy and overseas cognition in Zhen'an County, Guiyuan Temple in Xi'an.
This beautiful but relatively poverty -stricken areas are highly keen on the internationalization of internationalization and China -India, which also makes us see the difference between the people of the two countries treat each other and the open mindset.That is, China, especially in the academic community, to a large extent, it has a considerable favor and acceptance of India.As Professor Wang Bangwei, Dean of the Peking University Institute of Studies during the meeting, said, as far as history is concerned, India ’s cultural contribution to China is far greater than that of China’ s contribution to Indian culture.The people of the world are still grateful for this.
To this day, due to the shadow of the history of the war, coupled with the realistic local political game, and the intervention of other major powers, it has not been able to fully reconcile between China and India.If these two countries in the world are the most populated countries, if they cannot coexist peacefully, it will not only be the blessing of the people of the two countries, but also the biggest nightmare of all human beings.
The author is the amateur enthusiast of literature and history
