Professor B R Deepak, was trained in Chinese history and India-China relations at the Peking University and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and University of Edinburgh, UK. He has been the Nehru and Asia Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing. Dr. Deepak's publications include India and China 1904-2004: A Century of Peace and Conflict (2005); India-China Relations in first half of the Twentieth Century (2001); India-China Relations: Future Perspectives (co ed. 2012); India-China Relations: Civilizational Perspective (2012) China: Agriculture, Countryside and Peasants (2010); Cheeni Kavita: Gayarvin Shatavdi se Chuahdvin Shatavdi Tak (Chinese Poetry: 1100 BC to 1400 AD) (2011), a translation of 88 selected classical poems for which he was awarded the 2011 "Special Book Prize of China", the first Indian to receive the highest literary award from China. The author has been a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China, Doon University, Dehradun India, and Teaching Fellow at the Scottish Centre of Chinese Studies in the University of Edinburgh, UK.