11 Facts About Ji Xianlin

Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China.

Ji Xianlin published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

Ji Xianlin attended Sanhejie Primary School and the No 1 Middle School in Jinan, then Shandong University.

Ji Xianlin became dean of the department and pioneered the field of Eastern studies in China, authoring 40 articles and 13 academic papers in the next three years.

Ji Xianlin served as chairman of various professional organizations, including the Chinese Foreign Literature Association, the Chinese South Asian Association and the Chinese Language Society.

Ji Xianlin died on July 11,2009, in the No 301 Hospital, Beijing.

Ji Xianlin advocated a greater degree of cultural exchange between East and West, in order to rejuvenate both cultures, and from the mid-1990s, he actively participated in discussions on the cultural problems between the East and West, based on the same ideology.

Ji Xianlin has opined that the meaning of life lies in work, and he avoided distractions which would have detracted from his working time; in order to do one's work he believed that one must stay healthy, so he exercised for his health.

Ji Xianlin once said that he often felt compelled to get up at this early hour to work.

Ji Xianlin's article was sufficiently convincing to many scholars that it caused a re-evaluation of the development of modern Chinese literature and the role of Hu Shih.

Ji Xianlin translated from the original Sanskrit and rendered them in poetry in Chinese.