The Pantheistic Subjective Consciousness of the Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group

SUN Yixue; WANG Rongcui

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258109

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SUN Yixue, WANG Rongcui. The Pantheistic Subjective Consciousness of the Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2025, 8(1): 142-161. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258109

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SUN Yixue, WANG Rongcui. The Pantheistic Subjective Consciousness of the Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2025, 8(1): 142-161. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258109

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The Pantheistic Subjective Consciousness of the Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20258109

SUN Yixue¹,
WANG Rongcui²

1. Tongji University;
2. Shanghai Publishing and Printing College

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SUN Yixue is Dean of The International School of Tongji University and a professor with a PhD in literature. He focuses on comparative and world literature， Tagore and China， international Chinese language education and international dissemination of Chinese culture， and overseas Sinology.

WANG Rongcui is a lecturer at the School of Marxism of Shanghai Publishing and Printing College. She received her PhD in Philosophy， and is mainly engaged in the study of Western aesthetics， comparative and world literature， Marxist theory and ideological and political education.
Received Date: 2024-08-13
Accepted Date: 2025-02-08

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Rabindranath Tagore， a globally influential writer after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature， had seen his works and ideas widely disseminated and studied in China. A significant group of modern Chinese writers， notably influenced by Tagore’s creative theory and artistic style， formed the “Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group，” represented by celebrity figures such as Guo Moruo， Bing Xin， Xu Zhimo and so forth. These writers all emphasize the subjective status and consciousness of “human beings，” with Tagore providing them a new possibility to express what they call the “self.” The “Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group” focuses on unifying the “I” with the Supreme Being to manifest the self， in particular accentuating the divinity of “man.” Meanwhile， the “Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group” also enriches subjectivity through a natural fusion of the “I” and “Brahman.” Furthermore， they also pay attention to the integration of the “I” with the individual spirit to articulate the self， and give considerable weight to the richness of the individual’s spiritual world as well as the dissolution of the boundaries between artistic and spiritual realms. While the “Chinese Tagorean Writers” share common ground with Tagore’s pantheistic thought in promoting subjective consciousness， their approaches are not entirely identical and consistent. That said， they jointly absorb the fusion of “Brahman” and the “I” in Tagore’s pantheism， demonstrating a Tagorean “pantheistic subjective consciousness，” which fully embodies the Eastern characteristic of “subject-object integration，” while in the meantime， remains distinct from the Western sense of subjective consciousness that relies on subject-object dichotomy and “self” perfection. The concept of “Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group” serves as an attempt to explore the relationship between Tagore and modern Chinese writers， unveiling both the uniqueness of Tagore’s influence on modern Chinese writers， and the interaction between modern Chinese writers and foreign cultural impacts on a deeper level.
- Chinese Tagorean Writers’ Group,
- subjective consciousness,
- pantheism,
- subject-object intermingling,
- self

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