Hi I am in interested in having the information about Peking University as well as the details of the School of Foreign Languages and the department of South Asian Languages?

Peking University is a thorough and national key college. The grounds, known as "Yan Yuan"（the garden of Yan）, is arranged at Haidian District in the western suburb of Beijing

Peking University is glad for its extraordinary personnel, including 53 individuals from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 7 individuals from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and 14 individuals from the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

The School of Foreign Languages, whose starting point goes back to Jingshi Tongwenguan (The Capital House of Foreign Languages) established in 1862, framed superb customs and recognized elements amid its 150 years of history. Today, the School of Foreign Languages is carrying on the customs in more fields to fashion new points of reference.

South Asian Languages

The Hindi learns at Peking University was started in 1917. At the point when the National Oriental Language College was built up in 1942, the Hindi reviews were begun. Converged into Peking University in 1949, Hindi got to be distinctly one of the dialects instructed in the Department of Indian Language and Literature. In 1946, Mr. Ji Xianlin was utilized to set up the Department of Oriental Languages and Sanskrit and Pali were two of the most punctual dialects instructed in the Department where Ji was the principal teacher. In 1948 Mr. Jin Kemu likewise came to Peking University. Together with Mr. Ji, they started the educating and research of Indian reviews in the genuine sense.

The Department has a place with the sub-classification concentrates reported by the Ministry of Education, is one of the primary National Key Majors and one of the most punctual majors that can offer ace and PhD degrees in this field. It was surveyed as one of the National Key Majors in 2002 and 2006, and is the special case that can give PhD degrees in this field across the country. In the interim, the Department is a piece of the National Undergraduate Student Training Base for Non-non specific Language at Peking University and some portion of the Key Social Sciences Base for Oriental Literature Research of Ministry of Education.

In 2008, the Department was assessed as the Specialized Major of Ministry of Education and in 2009 it was assessed as Beijing Municipal Specialized Major.

The present staff of the Department is comprised of 17 individuals with seven teachers, five partner educators and five speakers. Their examination covers antiquated Indian dialect and writing, social trade amongst China and India, explore on Buddhist history and writing, contemporary dialect and writing of South Asia, religions of South Asia, culture of South Asia, inquire about on South Asia. Presently it has eight Master research tracks and eight PhD research tracks.