China has decided to donate 53.6 lakh for the establishment of a gallery on Rabindranath and China' at the Tagore Museum in Rabindra Bharati University (RBU). A formal agreement on this was signed on Friday at Tagore House by Chinese consul general in Kolkata Mao Siwei and RBU vice-chancellor Karuna Sindhu Das.
According to the agreement, the China gallery will cover 180 sqm and display motifs, including that of Chinese civilization, Lord Buddha, the great liaison between India and China, Tagore's inquisitiveness and respect for China from his boyhood days, Visva Bharati and studies in Chinese literature and culture and Tagore's visit to China in 1924.
Mao said the gallery would be inaugurated in May 2011 during Tagore's 150th birth anniversary celebrations. "Tagore was still popular in China. Ten years ago, The Complete Works of Tagore' was published in 24 volumes in China. As far as I know, Chinese is the language which has done the most for Tagore's publications, second only to Indian languages and English", he added.
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