BR DEEPAK

B.R. Deepak is a Professor at the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was trained in Chinese studies at the Peking University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and University of Edinburgh, UK. He has been a Nehru and Asia Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. His numerous publications include, among others, India’s China Dilemma: The Lost Equilibrium and Widening Asymmetries (Pentagon 2021), India and China: Beyond the Binary of Friendship and Enmity (Springer 2020), China’s Global Rebalancing and the New Silk Road (Springer 2018) and My Tryst with China (China Translation Press 2017). Some of his translations from Chinese to Hindi and English include: China and India: Dialogues of Civilizations (Pentagon 2021; Hindi edition, Prakashan Sansthan 2021), Parva (Chinese edition, Sahitya Akademy 2020), Ji Xianlin: A Critical Biography (Pentagon 2019; Hindi edition Prakashan Sansthan) and Chinese Poetry: 1100 BC to 1400 AD (Prakashan Sansthan 42 2011), a translation of 85 selected classical poems for which he was awarded the 2011 Special Book Prize of China, and other writings. He writes a fortnightly column ‘Eye on China’ for The Sunday Guardian.

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China in Xi’s “New Era”: Denouncing the Era of “Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones”
08 May 2023

On 16 October 2022, Xi Jinping, on behalf of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), delivered a report to the 20th CPC National Congress.