Tan Chung (born 18 April 1929, in Matubahar, Johor[1]) is an authority on Chinese history, Sino-Indian relations and cultural exchange.
His wife, Huang I-Shu, taught Chinese at Delhi University.
His father, Tan Yun-Shan (1898-1983), was the founder of Cheena Bhavana at Santiniketan and a key figure driving Nationalist China's interactions with the Indian freedom movement during the 1930s and 1940s.
[4] After Tan Chung's retirement from JNU in 1994, he worked as a research professor at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi and currently lives in Chicago, United States.
of India[6] and the China-India Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in the same year.