India and China

Professor B R Deepak, was trained in Chinese history and India-China relations at the Peking University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and University of Edinburgh, UK. He has been the Nehru and Asia Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

He was awarded the 2011 “Special Book Prize of China”, the first Indian to receive the highest literary award from China for the book Cheeni Kavita: Gayarvin Shatavdi se Chuahdvin Shatavdi Tak (Chinese Poetry: 1100 BC to 1400 AD) (2011), a translation of 88 selected classical poems. The author has been a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China, Doon University, Dehradun India, and Teaching Fellow at the Scottish Centre of Chinese Studies in the University of Edinburgh, UK.