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Ji Xianlin

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Chinese academic, linguist, historian, translator and university teacher (1911-2009)

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Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works.

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2006Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation
1998Lu Xun Literary Prize for Excellent Proses and Essays
Padma Bhushan
honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

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China
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
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Lived 1911 to 2009 · aged 97
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13 languages

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