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On
the cover this month
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‘Celebrating
the Lantern Festival in a Chinese Home’
Reproduced from Chinese New Year Festivals: A Picturesque Monograph
of the Rites, Ceremonies and Observances Thereto, by Juliet Bredon
(Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1930)
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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. |
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