2. Ji Xianlin, 19 1 1, Qingping County (now merged into Linqing City). He studied at Sanhe Street Primary School in Jinan, Jinan No.1 Middle School and Shandong University. 1930 was admitted to the department of western literature in Tsinghua University. 1935 was admitted as a graduate student in exchange between Tsinghua University and Germany, and went to the University of G? ttingen in Germany to study Sanskrit, Pali and Tohari. 194 1 year, with a doctorate in philosophy. 1946 returned to China, and in the autumn of the same year, Ji Xianlin was hired as Professor Peking University, founded the Department of Oriental Languages, and served as Professor Peking University and head of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. 1956 was elected as a member of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China Academy of Sciences. /kloc-in 0/9, he served as vice-president of Peking University and director of South Asia Institute jointly organized by China Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University. 1984, a separate institute was established, and he was re-appointed as the director of South Asia and Southeast Asia Institute in Peking University. He has served as president of China Foreign Literature Society, South Asia Society of China, Honorary President of China Ancient Philology Society, President of Chinese Language Society, President of China Foreign Language Teaching Research Association, Vice President of China Higher Education Society, and President of Dunhuang Turpan Society of China. His works have been compiled into Ji Xianlin's Collected Works, with a total of 24 volumes, including Indian Archaic, Sino-Indian Cultural Relations, Indian History and Culture, China Culture and Oriental Culture, Buddhism, Comparative Literature and Folk Literature, Sugar History, Ye Huotan, Prose, Preface and Postscript, Sanskrit and other languages.
3. Ji Xianlin believes that cultural exchange is one of the main driving forces of human progress. Human beings must learn from each other and learn from each other's strengths, and the ultimate goal of human progress must be some form of great harmony. Ji Xianlin actively participated in the discussion on the cultural issues between the East and the West in China in recent 10 years, and also carried out this idea. Ji Xianlin divided human culture into four systems: China cultural system. Indian cultural system, Arab Islamic cultural system, European and American cultural systems since ancient Greece and Rome, and the first three * * * together constitute the eastern cultural system, while the latter is the western cultural system. Ji Xianlin shouted for the revival of the oriental nation and the revival of the oriental culture, and proposed that the change of the eastern and western cultures was thirty years east of the river and thirty years west of the river, which aroused strong repercussions in China. What Ji Xianlin expressed was a historical and macroscopic viewpoint, and it was also a positive response to Eurocentrism, which had ruled the world for a long time.
4. Ji Xianlin 1946 returned from Germany and was employed in Peking University to establish the Department of Oriental Languages and open up the academic garden of Oriental Studies in China. In the fields of Buddhist language, the history of Sino-Indian cultural relations, Buddhist history, Indian history, Indian literature, comparative literature and so on, he won many awards and became a famous master of Orientalism at home and abroad. China Orientalism has such an academic master as Ji Xianlin, which is actually a blessing of China Orientalism.