ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CHINA TODAY

For years, ‘do it yourself’ kits were reserved for people painting their own houses, Doing home repairs or putting together pre-fabricated furniture to save on labor costs. Now, with The Mural Manual (ISBN 07240 6178 9), put out by the Arts Council N.S.W. of the Division of Cultural Activities of the premier’s Department, we have a do it yourself book...

A Qing dynasty Chinese military training manual is not the sort of book you would expect to find on the shelves of an Australian library.  Even the universities’ Asian Language collection would be unlikely to include such an out-of-the-way item.  In the museum library of the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, however, there is a book called Huaijun way gerund...

There is rightly, an air of mystery pervading the woodcut prints by the Japanese artist Akira Kurosaki of China contrasting with his more geometric work of several years ago (see Hemisphere cover, October 1977). On these two pages present five of his views of China.  They are done in the ancient kayo-e tradition: from wood blocks cut by the master...