Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.s2.t20.46

v2.c10.s2.t20.46

When India gained independence in 1947 and with the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, India-China relations have entered a new historical phase. In 1961, on the occasion of the birth centenary of Tagore, the People’s Literature Publishing House published 10 volumes of the hardbound *Selected Works of Tagore*. Tagore’s poems like *Gitanjali*, *The Gardener*, *stories and poems*, more than 30 short stories, novels - *Gora*, and some dramas were incorporated in this. Well-known Chinese indologist - Professor Ji Xianlin from Peking University, in the commemoration speech, spoke highly of Tagore’s works. If the period around Tagore’s visit to China is considered as the first high tide of Chinese Translation of Tagore, then the period from the 1950s to the early 1960s can be considered as the second high tide of Chinese Translation of Tagore. By now, it has been possible to have a systematic translation of Tagore’s works. In the 1950s, some Chinese scholars and translators like Zheng Zhenduo, Xie Bingxin, Shi Zhen, Huang Yushi, Wu Yan, Jin Kemu, Ying Ruocheng, Feng Jinxin, and others in addition to making amendments to their old translation works, have also newly translated some of his other works as well.