Lonely Garden Birds (Biography of Tagore) (Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Hou Chuanwen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7202070413 ISBN 13: 9787202070413

Publisher: Hebei Peoples Publishing House, 2012

Synopsis

Tagore (1861-1941) was born to an Indian noble family, began to write poems at the age of 8, and published his first long poem Wild Flower at the age of 15. At the age of 25, he published his famous New Moon Gathers. Throughout his life, he wrote quite a lot and painted over 1,500 paintings. In 1913, he won Nobel Prize for Literature with his English collection of poems Gitanjali, becoming the first Oriental writer to win the honor. To support the movement for the independence of India, he was the first one to reject the honor and privileges endowed by the British sovereign. Indian people admired him and loved him, and called him poetic sage, the conscience of India and the soul of India. In 1924, 64-year-old Tagore came to visit China and contacted Chinese celebrities like Pu Yi, Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Gu Hongming accompanied by Xu Zhimo, and that has become a much-told story in the history of exchanges between China and India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hebei Peoples Publishing House
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN 10: 7202070413
• ISBN 13: 9787202070413
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 239