Jin Dinghan


Jin Dinghan is a Chinese translator and professor.
He is one of the foremost translators of Hindi literature. For his contributions to the introduction of Hindi literature to foreign readers, he was honored with the World Hindi Language Honorary Award in 1993 and the Dr. George Grierson Award in 2001.

Biography

Jin was born in a highly educated family in Changsha, Hunan in 1930, with his ancestral home in Zhuji, Zhejiang. His father, Jin Yuereng, who was a senior engineer; his uncle, Jin Yuelin, who was a Chinese philosopher; his brother, Jin Dingxin, was a member of the China Zhi Gong Party Central Committee.
Jin graduated from Peking University in 1955, where he majored in Hindi language, Jin taught there when graduated. At the same time, he served as a researcher in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

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