STRAY BIRDS: TAGORE AND THE GENESIS OF MODERN CHINESE POETRY

• Authors: Kubin Wolfgang
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In recent decades, poetry has died many deaths and is still considered moribund today. The strange thing, though, is that it remains alive and often revives in moments of political crisis. This, for instance, was true in 1919 in the Republic of China (1912−1949) as well as in 1979 in the People's Republic of China (1949−present). Both of these dates also have to do with an Indian poet, namely with Rabindranath Tagore (1861−1941), whose impact on Chinese literature is still measurable even after more than eighty years. The turning point in 1919 was for some type of bourgeois revolution and the watershed in 1979 represents a kind of socialist reform. Both dates are milestones in the history of modern China.

Keywords

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RABINDRANATH TAGORE; CHINESE POETRY; CHINESE

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 40 – 50

Contributors

author

Kubin Wolfgang

• Department for Chinese Language and History, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Regina-Pacis-Weg 7, 53113 Bonn, Germany