Cheena Bhavana, Visva-Bharati

Visva-Bharati Cheena-Bhavana (Department of Chinese Language and Culture), the oldest department of Chinese studies in this sub-continent was established by Gurudeva Rabindranath Tagore and Prof. Tan Yun-Shan on 14th April 1937 with great ideas of strengthening the age old culture relation and interfaces between India and China through personal contacts and investigations into the history of interrelationship between the two countries. Its establishment was in partial fulfillment of Gurudeva’s desire for undertaking collective research work on different aspects of International cultural studies by the great minds of the modern world and for spreading the noble message of universal friendship and brotherhood among the people of the world. The untiring zeal and effort of Professor Tan Yun-Shan with the constant inspiration from Gurudeva Rabindranath Tagore opened up a new vista of Sino-Indian cultural Fellowship in India and in the entire world to some extent.