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Ji Xianlin, a
famous paleographer(古文书学家),
historian, and writer, was born in 1911. In 1930, Ji was admitted to Tsinghua
University as a major in Western literature. In 1935, he went to Germany as an
exchange student to study ancient languages, receiving his PhD degree in
1941.
Ji returned to
China in 1946, and in the autumn of the same year, became a professor in Peking
University.
Ji Xianlin believes, “Cultural exchange is the
main drive for humankind’s progress. Only by learning from each other’s strong
points to make up for shortcomings can people constantly progress, the ultimate（最终的）target of
which is to achieve a kind of Great Harmony. ” Over the past ten years, Ji has
actively participated in discussions on the cultural problems between the East
and the West, based on the same ideology. According to him, human culture is
divided into four parts: Chinese culture, Indian culture, Arabic-Islamic
culture and European-American culture,
with the former three making up the Eastern cultural system and the last
the Western one.
With his
achievements in the history of Sino-Indian cultural relations, Buddhism
history, Indian literature, and
comparative literature, Ji Xianlin is known as a master of Eastern stu dies both at home and abroad.
