Jin was born in a highly educated family in
Changsha,
Hunan in 1930, with his
ancestral home in
Zhuji,
Zhejiang. His father, Jin Yuereng (), who was a senior
engineer; his uncle,
Jin Yuelin, who was a Chinese
philosopher; his brother, Jin Dingxin (), was a member of the
China Zhi Gong Party Central Committee. Jin graduated from
Peking University in 1955, where he majored in
Hindi language, Jin taught there when graduated. At the same time, he served as a researcher in
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. ==Translation==