IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF XUANZANG: TAN YUN-SHAN AND INDIA

Edited by Tan Chung

1999, xxviii+251pp ISBN 81-212-0630-8 Rs. 750(HB)

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DEDICATED TO:

Gurudeva Rabindranath Tagore,

PanditJi Jawahar Lal Nehru,

Tai Chi-Tao,

Cai Yuanpei,

 and all the pioneers in founding the Sino-Indian Cultural Society and opening a new leaf in India-China Cultural interface and synergy in modern time
Messages:

1.From the President of India: Honourable K. R. Narayanan

2.From the Vice-President of India: Honourable Krishan Kant
Acknowledgements Tan Chung
Foreword Kapila Vatsyayan
Preface Karan Singh
Introduction Tan Chung

 

A MOSAIC LIFE OF ORDINARY UNIQUENESS
  • Life Sketch of Tan Yun-shan– Tan Lee
  • TanYun-shan — A historical Role – Tan Chung
  • Tan Yun-shan: The Man and His Mission – V.G. Nair
  • Tan Yun-shan and the Renewal of Sino-Indian Cultural Interaction – W. Pachow
  • A Cultural Envoy between China and India – Huang Xinchuan

    • FOND MEMORIES
  • Remembring my Sister and Brother-in-law Tan Yun-shan – Chen Laisheng
  • My Acquaintance with Professor Tan Yun-shan – Yun-yuan Yang
  • Personification of Rabindranath’s Visvakarma – Bhudeb Chaudhuri
  • My Tribute to Tan Yun-shan – K.P.S. Menon
  • Follow the footsteps of Savants: Promote Deeper understanding between India and China – C.V. Ranganathan
  • My Tribute to Prof. Tan Yun-shan – Kalyan Kumar Sarkar
  • Remembring Prof. Tan Yun-shan – Krishna Kinkar Sinha
  • Lonely Traveller – B. K. Roy Burman
  • My Eternal Memory of Prof. Tan Yun-shan – Karuna Kusalasaya
  • Prof. Tan Yun-shan as I knew Him – Lama Chimpa
  • The Great Scholar Prof. Tan Yun-shan – Bina Roy Burman
  • In Memory of Father – Tan Wen Dasgupta
  • Tan Yun-shan — The Essential Man – Tan Lee
  • Fond Memory from A Son – Tan Arjun
  • Tan Yun-shan Lives in Our Hearts Forever – Wang Hongwei
  • Tan Yun-shan: A Tribute – Jin Dinghan
  • My first Lesson in Indian Studies: Reading Tan Yun-shan’s Travel Account – Wang Bangwei
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    INDIA AND CHINA
  • Tagore: pioneer in Asian Relations – Kalidas Nag
  • Tagore and Confucian China – Sampson Shen
  • On Theories of Nationalism for India and China – Prasenjit Dura
  • Colonialism and the Discourse in India and China – Manoranjan Mohanty
  • Friendship-In-Need between Chinese and Indian People in Modern Times – Lin Chengjie
  • The pioneer of (Sino-Indian) Studies and Cultural Bridge between Indian and China – H. P. Ray
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    WRITINGS OF TAGORE, NEHRU AND TAN YUN-SHAN

  • China and India – Rabindranath Tagore
  • ndia and China – Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Cultural Interchange between India and China – Tan Yun-shan
  • My Devotion to Rabindranath Tagore – Tan Yun-shan
  • My First Visit to Gandhiji– Tan Yun-shan
  • Ahimsa in Sino-Indian Culture– Tan Yun-shan
  • 35. Poet to Poet – Tagore-Noguchi correspondence on Japanese Aggression, 1938
  • An Appeal to Conscience – Tan Yun-shan
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     SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN TAN YUN-SHAN AND INDIAN LEADERS

  • C. Rajagopalachari to Tan Yun-shan (and Message), July 7, 1948
  • Dr. Rajendra Prasad to Tan Yun-shan, Janauary 4, 1957
  • Message from Dr. Rajendra Prasad
  • Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Tan Yun-shan, August 26, 1948
  • Dr. S. Radhakrishanan to Tan Yun-shan, September 19, 1946
  • Dr. S. Radhakrishanan to Tan Yun-shan, February 17, 1960
  • Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri to Tan Yun-shan, July 31, 1964
  • Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri to Tan Yun-shan, January 2, 1966
  • Mrs. Indira Gandhi to Tan yun-shan, February 22, 1983
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    SINO-INDIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY

  • Introduction by Tan Yun-shan     Part 1 | Part 2
  • Membership.
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    TAN CHUNG is an Indian Citizen of Chinese descent born in Malaya in 1929, having lived, first, in China for 23 years, and then, in India for 44 years till date. He stepped into the shoes of his illustrious father, Prof. TanYun-shan (1898-1983) of Shantiniketan – a pioneer of Chinese studies in India and Sino-Indian studies- and contributed to the building up of the Chinese studies programmes in Delhi University and Jawarharlal Nehru University from 1964 up till 1994 when he finally retired from JNU as Professor of Chinese. He has been a Consultant of IGNCA from 1989 onwards to help develop its East Asian Programme. He has authored many books, among which, China and the Brave New World and also Triton and Dragon (a Gyan Publication) are text books for history courses in Indian and foreign universities. His Dunhuang Art Through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie is a reference book for art courses on US and other English languge compuses.

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