On the cover this month
'Celebrating the Lantem Festival in a Chinese Home'
Reproduced
from Chinese New Year Festivals. A Picturesque Monograph of the Rites,
Ceremonies and Observances Thereto, by Juliet Bredon
(Shenghai: Kelly end Welsh, 1930)
The
above item features in the Library’s current exhibition, Xanadu:
Encounters with China, a traveller’s view of China from the journey of
Marco Polo in 1271 through to Australia’s re-engagement with that
nation in the 1970s. As viewed through more than 150 items drawn from
the Library’s Asian, Map, Picture, Manuscript and Ephemera collections,
Xanadu shows how the country has been perceived by successive Western
observers over eight centuries. The exhibition runs from 19 August to
14 November 2004 in the National Library’s Exhibition Gallery.
September 2004 Volume XIV Number 12
AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL TRADITION
On the eve of Larry Sitsky’s 70th birthday, Jim Cotter considers his contribution to Australian musical life
SPURLING'S WILD TASMANIA
Nic Haygarth profiles keen Tasmanian bushman and pioneer outdoor photojournalist, Stephen Spurling III, whose works are held in the Library’s Pictures Collection
20 YEARS IN THE FiElD: RECORDING THE MIGRANT EXPERIENCE
Barry York recollects his long-term involvement making oral history recordings with Australia’s migrant community
THE EARLY LETTERS OF MIRIAM HYDE
Karen Johnson reads some of the correspondence of a great Australian musician
LIVING HISTORY
Recording and preserving Northern Territory history has been the cause of a range of people working around Australia for the past 25 years, reports Diana Giese
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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