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Tan Chung Wei Liming A century of vibrations between Tagore and China (1913-2012) The first Asian Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, arrived when the Chinese intellectuals were in the second year of their bewilderment of the sudden crumbling of the ancient regime and the uncertain destination of the new-born Republic. They were also immersed in the whirlpool of modern thinking bubbling over with individual liberation, free thinking, scientific temper, democracy and equality, and women’s empowerment. When they began hunting food for thought in the jungle of foreign literature, Tagore wh