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'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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