Jin Dinghan (; 13 September 1930 – 28 November 2020) was a

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translator and professor. He was one of the foremost translators of

Hindi literature Hindi literature () includes literature in the various Central Indo-Aryan languages, also known as Hindi, some of which have different writing systems. Earliest forms of Hindi literature are attested in poetry of Apabhraṃśa such as Awad ...

. 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 The Dr. George Grierson Award (Devnagari: डॉ जॉर्ज ग्रियर्सन पुरस्कार) is a literary honor in India. It is conferred annually by Central Institute of Hindi, (Kendriya Hindi Sansthan), Ministry of Hu ...

in 2000.

Biography

Jin was born in a highly educated family in

Changsha Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...

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in 1930, with his

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. His father, Jin Yuereng (), who was a senior

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; his uncle, Jin Yuelin, who was a Chinese

philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

; his brother, Jin Dingxin (), was a member of the

China Zhi Gong Party The China Zhi Gong Party ( zh, s=中国致公党, p=Zhōngguó Zhìgōngdǎng, l=Public Interest Party of China) is one of the eight minor so-called " democratic parties" in the People's Republic of China under the direction of the Chinese Com ...

Central Committee. Jin graduated from

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in 1955, where he majored in

Hindi language Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of the Government of India, alongside English, and is the ''li ...

, Jin taught there when graduated. At the same time, he served as a researcher in

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Translation

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Ramacharitamanas ''Ramcharitmanas'' ( deva, रामचरितमानस, rāmacaritamānasa), is an Epic poetry, epic poem in the Awadhi language, composed by the 16th-century Indian bhakti poet Tulsidas (c. 1511–1623). It has many inspirations, the prima ...

'' ( Goswami Tulasidas) () *''The Fact of False'' (

Yashpal Yashpal Singh (3 December 1903 – 26 December 1976) was a Hindi-language writer, political commentator, a socialist and an essayist. He wrote in a range of genres, including essays, novels and short stories, as well as a play, two travel book ...

) () *''Nirmala'' (

Munshi Premchand Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. Premchand was a pioneer of Hindi and Urdu s ...

) () *''

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Poetry of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the first Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the People's Republic of China for nearly 30 years, wrote poetry, starting in the 1920s, during the Chinese Red Army's retreat during the Long March of 193 ...

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Awards

*1993 World Hindi Language Honorary Award *2000

References

1930 births Writers from Changsha Peking University alumni Hindi–Chinese translators Chinese–Hindi translators 2020 deaths Academic staff of Peking University Educators from Hunan 20th-century Chinese translators 21st-century Chinese translators {{China-translator-stub