Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.s2.t55.5

v2.c15.s2.t55.5

From 1924, he taught in schools in Southeast Asia in Singapore and Malaysia. In July 1927, he met Rabindranath Tagore in Singapore and accepted the invitation of Tagore to teach in Visva-Bharati (International University). Tan Yun-shan travelled to India the very next year to join Shantiniketan, India, and thus began the journey of a lifelong interaction and commitment, of intellectual and cultural symbiosis. It is a fact that has been acknowledged by many eminent scholars of Tagore Studies that Tagore played a pivotal role in nurturing and blooming of Tan Yunshan, thoroughly consecrated to the cause of India-China cultural concord.