麻豆社

The Criterion, which published The Waste Land

The Criterion, in which the seminal modernist poem The Waste Land first appeared.

• 14 mins

The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun

The True Story of Ah Q, by Lu Xun, China's first modernist work of literature

• 14 mins

Bertolt Brecht's play Drums in the Night

Bertolt Brecht's play Drums in the Night and the concept of alienation in the theatre

• 14 mins

Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago

Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago in 1922 a move with profound influence

• 14 mins

The Shabolovka Tower and the Gherkin, The Criterion, The True Story of Ah Q, Louis Armstrong goes to Chicago

An omnibus edition of four things from 1922 with an impact a century later.

• 57 mins

The Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, and Egyptomania

The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, sparking Egyptomania, that continues.

• 14 mins

Nosferatu and Modernist Horror

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, the first vampire film and its influence after a century

• 14 mins

H艒sh艒, the First Aircraft Carrier, and HMS Queen Elizabeth - and Cocaine

H艒sh艒, the first aircraft carrier, and HMS Queen Elizabeth, the most recent.

• 14 mins

Pirandello's Henry IV and the Idea of Truth

Luigi Pirandello's 1922 play Henry IV and the idea that truth can be what we say it is.

• 14 mins

Einstein, relativity, time, and indigenous Australian modernism

Einstein's ideas about time and parallels with the indigenous Australian conception of it.

• 14 mins

Tutankhamun and Egyptomania; Nosferatu; Pirandello's Henry IV; Einstein, Time and Aboriginal Modernism

An omnibus edition of four things from 1922 with an impact a century later.

• 57 mins