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This generously illustrated publication features new essays by the exhibition’s curators Lauren Gutsell

While many around the world are familiar with some aspects of Chinese myth―through Chinese New Year festivities or the classic adventures of the Monkey King in Journey to the West―not everyone understands the richness of Chinese mythology

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Waiata Maori Songs in History Werbegrafikdesign 'wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishnessIn waiata our forebears spoke their hearts in grief and celebration. For many hundreds of years this great oral tradition of song flourished in Aotearoa. During the second half of the nineteenth century, in times of rapid change, Maori scholars recorded for the future the words of thousands of waiata. Their manuscripts were preserved by Pakeha of foresight and commitment, and along with a vast body of other Maori writing they are now accessible in