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China and India Through the Ages: Lessons From History
The potential synergy of India and China is often talked about with ambitious terms such as “Chindia” in the light of the idea of the “Asian century”. But it is just as often that we see two nations and two worldviews that keep coming into conflict with each other. Post-colonial phase has not been too favorable for Indo-China relations. Though colonialism, and the warding off of it, broke the spell of a long-standing isolation in a way, it pushed the two countries into more difficult waters.
Broadly, the relations of the two big Asian neighbors can be classified under three types of eras: era of cooperation; era of isolation; and era of conflict. These are not watertight compartments, but have at times followed each other, or even overlapped.
A glance back to the ancient relations between India and China is very insightful. As it turns out, India is the only country in the outside world to which scholars from ancient China we
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ByLi Shen
As a preeminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi is worshiped and loved by people all around the world. Chinese readers still look for his wisdom and charisma through books, films and other materials, even sixty-one years after his death. Now they can learn about Gandhi's life through the eyes of his grandson, as the Chinese version of the book The Good Boatman: A Portrait of Gandhi, was released in Beijing on Tuesday.
Written by Professor Rajmohan Gandhi, one of Gandhi's grandsons, the 495-page book serves not only as a biography of Gandhi's life, but even more so as an explanation of his views toward non-violence, religion, race, caste, the Partition of India, etc. It was originally published in 1995.
"To this event, Chinese public now have an access to an authoritative biography of the Mahatma," said Mr. Jaideep Mazumdar, Charge d' Affaires of the Indian Embassy at the release ceremony, which was
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Relevance of Traditional Cultures for the Present and the Future
All nations and societies have considered it crucial to evaluate the role and relevance of tradition for their own generation and beyond. This discourse has a fundamentally different content and quality in non-Western societies as against the shape it takes in the West. Indeed, because of the differing trajectories of historical evolution in the Western and non-Western world, the “Relevance” question itself applies essentially to the latter.
The questions raised bygd delving into the reasons and effects of this situation provided the driving impulse for a conference organized bygd the IIC-International Research Division which has now been published as this fascinating volume. It contains papper by scholars from backgrounds as diverse as from Benin, Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt, Mauritius, Senegal, Lebanon, Mexico, Argentina, as well as Greece, Russia, Germany, the UK and the USA, besides some countries in Asi