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Ji Xianlin's Essays Author: Ji Xianlin's Chinese Essays Recommended
Ji Xianlin's Essays Author: Ji Xianlin's Chinese Essays Recommended
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Mr. Ji Xianlin, who is well-versed in both Chinese and Western culture, is also a great prose writer. In the more than 70 years from the 1930s to recent years, he has written and published a large number of prose works and published many prose collections. These prose works are simple, meaningful, easy to understand, and profound, and contain profound life philosophy. This book is a collection of the best prose works published by Mr. Ji. The 62 prose works selected as the best and their classifications were determined by Mr. Ji himself. These prose works, whether they are chanting objects, reminiscing about the past, or narrating stories or describing scenes, all show the author's unique vision and profound thoughts in observing things and understanding worldly affairs, express the author's true feelings, and give people profound enlightenment.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Ji Xianlin, a famous scholar in my country, was born in August 1911 in Qingping, Shandong (now Linqing). He entered the Department of Western Literature at Tsinghua University in 1930. In 1935, he entered the University of Göttingen in Germany to major in Indology, and successively mastered ancient languages such as Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhist Sanskrit, and Tocharian. During his stay in Germany, he published many papers and received high praise from the international academic community. He returned to China in 1946 and was hired by Hu Shi as a professor at Peking University to preside over the establishment of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. In 1956, he was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. After 1978, he served as Vice President of Peking University and Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Mr. Ji also served as President of the Chinese Society of Foreign Literature, President of the Chinese Society of South Asian Studies, Honorary President of the Chinese Society of Ancient Ethnic Characters, President of the Chinese Linguistics Society, President of the Chinese Foreign Language Teaching Research Association, and President of the Chinese Dunhuang Turpan Society.
Mr. Ji's academic research areas mainly include ancient Indian languages, Sino-Indian Buddhist history, Tocharian translation and interpretation, Sino-Indian cultural exchange history, comparative literature, literary theory, oriental culture, Dunhuang studies, etc., with a wide range that is rare at home and abroad. While publishing a large number of influential academic works, Mr. Ji also published a number of prose collections, which had an important impact on the literary world.
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