T︠S︡anko Lavrenov, 1896-1978

Motion pictures were first introduced to China in 1896 and today China has become a major player in the film industry. However, the story of how Chinese cinema became what it is to...

This chapter reviews the book Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948) (2016), by Jonatan Meir, translated by Avi Aronsky. In Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem, Meir focuses on ...

Abstract Music Criticism in Vienna records a culture in which musical criticism had achieved the status of a minor art form. The period covered - October 1896 to ...

This seminal publication began life as a collaborative effort between the Irish botanist William Henry Harvey (1811–66) and his German counterpart Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–81). Re...

This chapter discusses the work of three New Zealand novelists: Janet Frame, Maurice Gee, and Patricia Grace. Frame began to publish in the late 1940s, Gee in the mid-1950s, and Gr...