Tagore and China

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-81-321-0637-1
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 894 g

Tagore and China is the first full account in English of Rabindranath Tagore's visit to China and its civilizational import. Perhaps for the first time, exhaustive material related to the visit has been collected.
The book charts Tagore's 'grand visit' in 1924 undertaken in response to China's 'Tagore fever' and the series of talks he gave there, their antecedents as well as impact. Also discussed is the foundation of Cheena-Bhavana at Visva-Bharati-and thereby of Chinese studies in India-and Tan Yun-shan's lifelong dedication to it and the Sino-Indian love it held.
This well-researched book unearths new material from Chinese sources to confirm the devotion of Tagore's interpreter, poet Xu Zhimo, to him and Tagore's affection for Xu Zhimo. Tagore's two personal visits to Xu Zhimo, preceded by the latter's visit to Santiniketan, have also been detailed.
Supplemented by several rare photographs, Tagore and China is a fitting tribute to Tagore's 150th birth anniversary and is going to be of abiding value to Sino-Indian understanding.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chung, Tan

Dev, Amiya

Bangwei, Wang

Liming, Wei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword to the Chinese Edition - Nirupama Rao

Foreword
Preface - Wang Bangwei

Introduction I - Tan Chung

Introduction II - Amiya Dev

1: ON GURUDEVA FROM HIS SANTINIKETAN SUCCESSOR:

Tagore and China - Amartya Sen
2: TAGORE'S 1924 CHINA VISIT
Historical Significance of Tagore's 1924 China Visit - Wei Liming
In Search of a Forgotten Dialogue: Chinese and Indian Artists Since 1924 - Amitava Bhattacharya
3: TAGORE'S IDEAL WORLD
Sino-Indian Studies at Visva-Bharati University: Story of Cheena-Bhavana, 1921-1937 - Uma Das Gupta
Looking East: China in Tagore's Cosmology of Thoughts - Swapan Majumdar
Tagore and China: A Brief Personal Note - Kalyan Kumar Sarkar
4: TAGORE AND HIS CHINESE FRIENDS
Telepathy between Rubidadda and Susima: A Geo-civilizational Perspective - Tan Chung
Sino-Indian Fraternity between Tagore and Tan Yun-shan - Huang I-shu
5: TAGORE, CHINA AND ASIA
Tagore's Vision of the East - Amiya Dev
Towards an In-depth Understanding of Tagore, China and Asia - Tan Chung
6: TAGORE THE CREATIVE GENIUS
Power of Tagore's Words - Amiya Dev
The Musical Journey of Rabindranath Tagore - Reba Som
A Clean Slate? - Rimli Bhattacharya
Tagore Our Contemporary - Mohit K Ray
7: TAGORE AND CHINESE LITERATURE
Tagore's Influence on the Chinese Writer Bing Xin - Zeng Qiong
Influence of Classical Chinese Poetry on Tagore's Works: A Tentative Discourse - Tan Chung
Tagore and Classical Chinese Poetry - Amiya Dev
The Songster's a Mango-bird - Ipshita Chanda
8: TAGORE AND SOCIETY
Tagore and Bengal's Social Modernity: Bringing Women to the Cultural Mainstream - Sabaree Mitra
Civil Society, 'Civility' and Tagore - Rajasri Basu
9: TAGORE'S CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE
Community, Nation and Sustainability: The Contemporary Relevance of Tagore - Prasenjit Duara
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Liming, Wei
Wei Liming is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Afro-Asian Languages in the Academy of Foreign Languages, Peking University, and a Fellow of the University’s Centre for Eastern Literature Studies which is a special research base for humanities funded by the Ministry of Education. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Eastern Literature Studies, and Deputy Secretary of the Association of Eastern Literatures within the Chinese Association of Foreign Literatures. She has published more than 30 research papers. She won award of educational technique innovation in Beijing city, award for character education, and first-grade achievement in teaching from Peking University.

Bangwei, Wang
Wang Bangwei, a disciple of Ji Xianlin the doyen of India studies in China, is China’s foremost scholar now in India and Buddhist studies. Professor, Institute of Oriental Studies, Research Centre of Eastern Literature, and Centre for India Studies, Peking University, he is also Director of all three and Dean of the Academy of Eastern Studies. He has published a number of books and articles, mostly in China, some in Germany, France, India, Sweden, Japan and Estonia, on the history of Chinese Buddhist pilgrimage and accounts of Xuanzang and Yijing, besides Sino-Indian cultural relations. He is also a member the Nalanda Mentor Group for the project to re-establish a new Nalanda in India.

Dev, Amiya
Amiya Dev was Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and has written widely in Bengali and English including biographies of two major Bengali poets after Tagore, and edited and co-edited a number of volumes, including Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice with Sisir Kumar Das, The Renewal of Song: Renovation in Lyric Conception and Practice with Earl Roy Miner, and Epic and Other Higher Narratives: Essays in Intercultural Studies with Steven Shankman for International Comparative Literature Association of which he is a former Vice-President. He retired as Vice-Chancellor of Vidyasagar University.

Chung, Tan
The author of this book, Tan Chung, is a typical “Chindian” in both metaphoric and real sense. Born in Malaysia in 1929, his nine decades long life can be divided according to the Indian ashrama life stages into the brahmacharya (celibate student) phase from 1930 to 1954 living in China, the grihastha (householder) phase from 1955 to 1999 living in India, and the sannyasa (wandering recluse) phase from 1999 to date living in the United States. His body chemicals were built by Chinese air, water, and food, and his brain cells were climatized by the environment of Chinese culture. He was a witness of the birth of a new China as well as the “ancien regime” overthrown by it. His celebrated father, Tan Yun-shan, was welcomed by Gurudeva Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan in India as an emissary of Chinese civilization. Tan Chung’s arrival at Santiniketan in 1955 began the gradual process of stepping into the shoes of his father. He started his career as a Chinese instructor at the National Defence Academy at Khadakvasla in 1958 and some of his pupils of the 15th, 16th and 17th courses retired in the general’s rank in the Indian defence forces. He continued his chalk-consuming career until he retired from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1994 with a seven-year stint as the Head of Chinese Studies in Delhi University in between. Many of his students have affectionately regarded him as a father figure. In 2010, he received the Indian civil award Padma Bhushan from Indian President Pratibha Patil and also the award of outstanding contribution to China–India friendship from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in New Delhi. In 2013, he was conferred the honorary degree of Deshikottama by Visva-Bharati University. He was also the recipient of the award for “outstanding contribution to China studies” at the 6th World Forum of China Studies in Shanghai in 2015. That Forum generated the inspiration and energy for the production of this Odyssey