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Talks In China

Rabindranath Tagore . Rupa Publications India . English

Talks in China (1925) is a collection of lectures delivered by Rabindranath Tagore in China in 1924 at the invitation of the Bengali Lecture Association. Many of the poet's talks were informal, delivered without any written notes. His China visit was extremely tempestuous, he met with organized hostility from the members of the Communist Party and was labelled both reactionary and ideologically dangerous. Talks in China is dedicated to Susima, Tagore's name for Xu Zhimo, the noted Chinese poet who acted as his interpreter during his visit.

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

About the Author

One of India's most cherished figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1914) was a novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, painter, educationist and thinker, the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. He modernised Bengali literature, moving it away from its rigid classical form and strict linguistic structure. Known for works such as Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World,) his novels, short stories and verse are considered part of the greatest of world literature, famous for their exploration of the political and the personal. He also wrote the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana and of Bangladesh, Amar Shonar Bangla.

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