What Chinese think of Indians | Street interview

What does an average Chinese citizen think of India?

India is often perceived as chaotic, adventurous, mysterious yet interesting and unique. Chinese people want to know more about India since they don’t hear much. On a general level of understanding, India remains a mystery that they want to solve. A lot of people attach that mystery with spiritual enlightenment w.r.t. Buddhism too.

Buddhism spread across Asia through networks of overland and maritime routes between India, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and China. The transmission of Buddhism to Central Asia and China corresponded with the development of the silk routes as channels for intercultural exchanges.

The earliest waves of Parthian, Sogdian and Indian translators of early Chinese Buddhist texts came to Loyang via the silk routes. Dhamaraksa (ca. 233-311 C.E.) and Kumarajiva (344-413 C.E.) came directly from Buddhist centers in the Tarim Basin. 

Anonymous foreign monks who traveled between India and China along the silk routes were responsible for the transmission of Buddhism at sub-elite levels. Faxian (between 399-414 C.E.) and Xuanzang (between 627-645 C.E.), the most famous Chinese pilgrims to India, reported valuable details about social, political, and religious conditions along the silk routes.

What Chinese think of Indians | Street interview

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There are 45-48,000 Indian nationals/expatriates living in mainland China, most of whom are students, traders and professionals employed with Indian IT companies and banks. There are three Indian community associations in the country.

The Indians in China are migrants from India to China and their descendants. Historically, Indians played a major role in disseminating Buddhism in China. In modern times, there is a large long-standing community of Indians living in Hong Kong, often for descendants with several generations of roots and a growing population of students, traders and employees in Mainland China. 

The majority of Indians are East Indian Bengali, and Biharis as well as a high proportion of North Indians (including Rajputs, Marathas and Punjabis).

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