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THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ASIAU STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS

AilWUAL REPORT 1973

General Comments , Courses

The Department of Asian Civilizations is responsible for teaching the cultural history of East, South-East and South Asia from pre­historic times to the present day. Within the broad political framework emphasis is laid on the cultural aspects of the subject with a view to understanding the contemporary culture of the regions concerned. As far as resources permit, a knowledge of the language of the reeions concerned is generally encouraged. All courses in the respective regions of Asian Civilizations are taught at both Honours and Pass level.

The course on Islamic Civilization ~ arranged in conjunction with the Department of Indonesian Languages and Literatures, surveys the rise of Islam and its expansion to become a major world religion. The unit Buddhist Civilization was not offered in 1973.

Enrolment an<l Examination Results

A total of 397 students were enrolled in the Department, and again a conside.rable number of part-time tutors were employed to help with tutorials in all sections , particularly in the first year courses . The Department wishes to express its gratitude to these tutors , without whose help the teaching of so many students would have been impossible .

Teaching in all units has led to satisfactory results in the annual examinations, with six Fourth Year Honours students obtaining their BA(AS) Honours . The Department this year has been responsible for the provision of three M.A. Qualifying courses .

Student Participation

Departmental meetings held during the year were well attended by the student representatives , and discussions were fruitful.

In Octoberj elections were held for three student representatives to attend Departmental meetings in 1974. Those elected were Hiss D.C.P. Wong, rirs J. F . Anderson and l1r T. P. Wang . Miss L. C. Chan was elected as the Department ' s student r epresentative to the Faculty Education Committee, and is also invited to attend Departmental meetings 1 while Mrs P.C. Gutman wa s elected as the postgraduate students ' representative for 1974.

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Work of Graduate Students

This year 9 two of the Departr:i1:.mt 1 s fourteen Ph.D. scholars obtained their doctorates . Mr A.Q . Rafiqi and Mr E. S. Visswanathan. Dr Rafiqi has obtained a lectureship at a degree college in his home town" Srinagar (Kashmir), and Dr Visswanathan returned to his post of lecturer in Lhe Department of History at the University of Malaya. Four more scholars, Mrs H.K. HcDougall 9 Hrs S. N. Parr:itt , Mr A.K. Farooque and Mr V.J.A . Flynn , are due to submit their thes2s early next year. The Department also accepted three new Ph D. scholars : Mr J.A. Ardussi working under the joint supervision of Professor Basham and Dr Jordens · Hs L.H. Manderson working under the supervision of Dr Kumar 9

and lfiss H.V. Tran working under Dr Loofsi supervision.

Three of the Department's twelve M. A. students 9 lliss J. Holmgren 9

Miss U. Rajah and Mr M.L. Lamb, have submitted their theses and are awaiting results . Two additional H.A. students, Mrs B.J . Caiger and Miss J.J. Shapcott, were accepted early in the year.

Regular postgraduate seminars were organized throughout the year by Mrs P.C. Gutman . Thesz seminars were well attended and were helpful in keeping colleagues and members of staff inforned about their current research_.

Staff

Professor and Head of Department :

Readers:

Senior Lecturers:

Lecturers ~

Senior Tutor :

Visitors

A.L. Basham, B.A. , Ph.D. , D.Litt.(Lond.), Hori. D. Litt. (Kuruk)

S.A.A. Rizvi , M.A., Ph.D . , D.Litt . (Agra) H. H.E. Loafs , Dip.Or.Lang.(Paris), Dr.Phil.(Frib.) J.T.F. Jordens, Lie.en Philos. , Ph . D. (Louvain) ,

Dip.Ed. (Melb . )

R.H.P . Hasan, i:1.A.(Cantab.). !.'~.D.

K.H.J. Gardiner , B.A. , Ph . D.(Lond.) J.G. Cai~er , B.A.(Syd. and Lond.), Ph.D.

Ann L. Kumar, B. A. (Oriental Studies) , Ph.D. Juli.:i Ching, B.A. (Hcw Rochelle) , M.A.(C.U.A.) 9

Ph.D.

LlL Proudfoot, B. A. (Orient:il Studies)

Professor Hasashi Chiknmori, visiting Lcverhulme Fellow from the F:iculty of Letters, Keio University , Tokyo, spent four months in the Department, from 1 July to 31 October . His visit was appreciated by both staff and students, especially those students taking the Japan

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segment of the first year course, to whom Professor Chikamori gave a series of lectures, illustrated with his own slides, on the prehistory of Japan.

In September , Dr Margaret Kartomi of the Department of Music, Monash University, was invited by this IJepartment and the Department of Indonesian Languages and Literatures to give a lecture to undergraduate students. This lecture on Indonesian music i usin,i taped material, was well received by the students. In conjunction with Dr Kartomi's visit, a performance of the Wayang Theatre was arl.anged with the invaluable assistance of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia . The performance was introduced by Dr KartoBi , and the Gamelan orchestra was played by students of the Girls' Grammar School . This perfo~ma~ce was warmly received by a capacity audience in the Law Lecture Theatre.

The Department is also grateful to Associate Professor O.B. van der Sprenkel, a former menber of the Department, for his assistance in taking the thirci year East Asian Civilization lectures during third term.

Staff t!ovement

A new lectureship in the South-East Section of the Department was established this year anc Dr B.J. Terwiel, who gained his Ph.D. in the Dcpartillent in 1972; has been appointed to the post . Dr Terwiel is expected to take up his appointment ~arly in the new year.

The Department will be sorry to lose Dr Julia Ching who has resigned to take up a post ::it Columbia University, ~·l.:?w York. She will be leaving the Department in mid-1974.

Research

Before going on study leave at the end of 1972, Professor Basham had finalised the work for what was to have been a revised edition of The Legacy of India to be published by the Clarendon Press. The work grew so voluminous that the Clarendon Press decided to publish it as a new work under the title~ The Culture of India - a Historical Survey. This publication is expected to appear during 1974 ,

Dr Rizvi has completed work on the Civilization of Iran, one of a series of books on Asia to be edited by Professor Basham and published by Angus & Robertson. He has now corumencecl. research for a three-volume history of 1·1uslim social and religious movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This project '1ill be support~d by an ARGC grant which has been awarded to Dr Rizvi.

The monograph on the historic city of Fatgpur SikrI written by Dr Rizvi in collaboration with one of his research scholars, l1r V.J.A. Flynn , has been accepted for publication by th~ well known art publishers , D.B. Taraporevula of Bombay. The monograph will be released in the coming year.

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Dr Loofs continued his analysis of finds fron the Khok Charoen site, Central Thailand, (;Xcavated during the third~ fourth ;ind fifth ses.sions of the Thai-British Archaeological Expedition , with a view to their publication. He h:1s cilso completed a chapter on the Arch.:ieology of the Philippines for Handbuch der Orient3listik to be published by E.J. Brill, Leiden 9 and an article iconnnents on Some Thermoluminescence Dates from Thailand 7 to be published by Antiquity next year.

Dr Loafs was invit8d to attend a Colloquy on Early South East Asia held in London in Septe:-aber. Although he was unnble to attend$ he submitted a paper entitled 'Problems of Continuity between prehistoric and Buddhist periods in Central Thailand' which will be: published in the Proceedings of the Colloquy .

During his Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship to India at the beginning of the year, Dr Jordens collected some extremely useful material from Indian archives and libraries for his current research project ~ an analysis of the thought of Dayananda Sarasw:.ltl, the foremost Hindu reformer of th8 nineteenth century and founder of the Arya Samaj > ~ Hindu religious movement.

Dr Gardiner continued his research on early Koguryo, and is also preparing a generql history of pre-modern China and a book on early Chinese travellers and connections between China snd the classical west.

Dr Kumar has been revising her Ph.D . thesis which has been accepted for publication by E.J. ~rill of Leiden.

Dr Caiger has been assessing new material for an additional honours course for senior students in the East Asian Section of the Department. This course is to be titled v Social aspects of Jap ;mese history through study of the pictorial record'.

Staff Activities

ProfGssor Basham has been on study leave throughout the whole of 1973. Fron J3nuary to April he was the guest of Utk~l University in Orissa, Indi~, having been invited in connection with a local history project being undertaken by that University. In July Professor Basham attended the 29th International Congress of Orientalists held in Paris ~1ere , in his capacity of retirine President, he inaugurated the proceedings. He also served on the consultative coi!lillittec of the Congress.

Under the euspices of UNESCO) Professor Bnsham visited Buenos Aires in August where he gave two five-week courses, lecturing in Spanish. This w3s followed by lectures at 11ontevideo (Uruguay), La Paz (Bolivia)• Limg (Peru) and San Jose (Costa Rica) . During October and November he was the guest of the University of Pennsylvania where he assisted with the supervision of research students in the South Asian Regional Studies Section of the University . He also paid weekly visits to New York to give lectures at Columbia University . Following a four-week lecturing

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assignment at the Centre of Oriental Studies, Mexico University, Professor Basham will return to C~nb~rra early in February 1974.

Dr Ching also took sabbatical leave during 1973. She was Visiting Assist'1nt Professor at ColumbL. University fron January to May. and then trav0lled to Munich Univ :~rsity where she assisted with the editing of biographies for the Sung Project , She presented a p'1pcr at the Orientnlists 7 Congress in Paris in July.

Dr Jordens also attended the Orientalists 1 Congress where he read a paper entitL~d 'Swami Dr.i.yan.'.lnda Sar.:iswati: a new approach to the study of his thought 1 • He paid brh:f visits to the Universities of Louvain, Oxforcl and Cc>..!ilbridge before returning to C.:mberrn.

Dr Rizvi attended the 45th ~ZAAS Congress held in Perth from 13 to 17 August nt which he present€!d a paper on Al-Biruni. This was also the topic of a lecture he gave for the Asian Soci.:ty 0f Canberra in November.

Dr Gnrdiner was again invited to visit the University of !ielbourne in Mnrch where he gavQ two lectures on pre-nan Chin;;i. He also conducted a course on Chin•.:;se philosophy for the Centre for Continuing Education during the first two t erms of the yen.r.

Throughout the year Dr Loofs gave lectures on the civilizations of Southeast Asia far the Centr~ for Continuing Educ~tion.

Drs 3.izvi, Loofs, Mason .:ind Gardin2r participated in the Faculty 1 s programme of talks to primary and secondary schools in the A.C.T. The following schools were visited : Girls 1 Grailll!lar School, Daramalan College, Narrabundah High ~ Duffy Primary , ~orth Ainslie Primary and Holder Prim:iry .

Dr ru~k~r gave a number of lectures on Indonesi~n society and history to the visiting students from Puget Sound University . She and Mr Proudfoot also participated in the Colloquium held by the Departraent of Pacific IUstory in Car1berra <luring April on 'The JJaturc of ·the State in Island Southcast Asi~'.

During the year Hr Proudfoot t:-,rganized r2gular screenings of films on various aspects of the cultures and soci~ties of Asia. These were felt to be of great benefit to the students and were quite well attended.

Publications

Bashan~ A.L. 1 India 1, Civilizetion ~ Volume I/The Emergence

of l1nn (P."lrt I, Book 4), CP11 Books, Del Mar~ Californi~ , 1973, pp.427-463.

Review of An Introduction to Indian rlistoriography, by fi..K. Warder , Boobay, 1972, in South Asia, Vol.3, 1973, pp . 114·- 116.

Ching, J.

Gardiner , K , ~L J.

Jordens, J.T,F.

Loofs , H.H.E.

Rizvi , S.A.A.

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'Beyond Good and Evil : the Culmination of the Thought of Wang Yang-ming 1

, Nurnen , Vol. XX, Fnsc.2 1 1973, pp.125-134.

'In Quest of Gog and Magogv, Hemispher0, Vol.17, No. 3, March 1973, pp. 26--33.

'Dayananda and Vedanta : ::i. comparison of the first and second editions of his Satyarth Prakash' , The Indian Economic and Social History Rcvfow, Univ. of Delhi~ Val.IX, No.4 (Dec. 1972), pp.367-79.

1 Swami Dayanand ka Jivan Darshan 1, Paropkari~

Vol.15 , No.5 (1 973) , pp.15-16.

Review article, 1 C.F.W. Higham & R.H. Parker, Prehistoric Investigaticns in N. E. Thailand 1969-70 : Prelirainary Report' , Journal of the Siam Society , Vol.61, No. l, 1973, pp .269--374.

'Cambodian Literaturev, 1 Laotian Liter3ture 1,

. 'Thai Literature' ,, 1 Vietnar.J.ese Literature' , Ca~sell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature, 2nd ed.,·J. Buchanan-Brown, gen.ed., London, Cassell, 1973, Val.I, pp .88-89, 332 , 553-554 ~ 577-579.

'A Musli~ Leonardo' , Part I, Hemisphere, Vol.17, No.9, September 1973, pp ol6-20.

1 A Muslin Leonardo ;, Part II , Hemisphere, Vol. 17, No.10, October 1973 , pp .9-13 .

A Japanese trnnslation of Dr R.H.P. lt3son's book Japan 1 s First General Election 1890, originally published by. C.U.P. in 1969 ~ was published in June by Hor1tsu Bunka Sha of Kyoto . The translators were Professor Yoshihisn Ishio and Dr Tashiro T~keda of Kansai University , Osaka, Japan.

~() - / \PJ-y S.A.A, Rizvi Acting Head

Department of Asian Civilizations

7 66/1974 T'.:iE AUSTRALIAfT l~ATIOi1AL UNIVERSITY DEPARTI1ENT OF ASIAi.'i CIVILIZATIOL·!S - Ai.qALYSIS OF STDD:!:NT PZP.FO~J.'f../<iJCE

1 2 u ,it or Subject Enrolled

as at 30.4.73 No. %

Int. Asian Civs A 194 (100) Int. Asian Civs 3 11 (100) Asian Civ.IIS 21 (100) Asian Civ.IIS (rt) 2 (100) Asian Civ.113 (HO) 1 (100) Asian Civ.IIIP 8 (100) Asian Civ.IISE 44 (100) Asian Civ.IISE (H) 4 (100) Asian Civ.IISE (HO) 2 (100) Asian Civ.IIISE 30 (100) Asian Civ . IIISE (H) 9 (100) Asian Civ.IIISE (HO) 1 (100) Asian Civ.II~ 30 (100) Asian Civ.IIE (~)

Asian Civ.IIIE

Asian Civ. IIIE (In Islamic Civ .

2 (100)

18 (100)

5 (100)

9 (100)

3 Sitting

No. %

169 (87)

10 (91)

22 2

1

8 (100)

38 (86)

53

334

5 (54)

25 (83)

2 (100)

17 (94)

5 (100)

8 (39)

4 "Wastage

No. % 25 (13)

l ( 9)

2 (100)

6 (14)

2 (100

4 (46)

1 ( 100)

5 (16)

l ( 6)

l (11)

5 Failure

~o.

24

2

% I

(12) I (35) I c 9) I

- ! I

1 (100)

1 (12)

2 ( 4)

2

4

-· I < 6 ) I

I

(13)

- I 2 (11)

6 I Sitting

I 1-N-0-. --%-

\ 169 1 (100) I

10 (lOC)

22 (100)

1 (1 00 )

n (!.JO)

38 (100)

5 (100)

33

5

25

(100)

(100)

(100)

2 (iOO)

17 5 (liJO)

7 }~igh

Dist.

No. %

l

l ( 3)

1 (20)

2 (l:.O)

1 ( 4)

1 ( 6)

s6 (1 0{, ) 2 ( 40)

[l (100)

3 Dist.

rfo. %

14 ( 8)

1 (10)

5 (23)

l (12)

2 ( 5)

6

1

1

1

(18)

(20)

( 4)

3 (17)

1 (12)

9 Credit

No. %

46 (27)

3 (30)

4 (18)

1 (12)

6 (16)

3 (60)

9

2

3

(27)

(40)

(12)

7 (4 1)

2 (L10)

6 (75)

10 Pass

Ho. %

83 (49)

2 (20)

11 (50)

5 (6?.)

?.7 (71)

1 (20)

16 (43)

lo (64)

1

3 (17)

1 (12)

11 Fail

Ho. %

24 (14)

l} ( 40)

2 ( 9)

1 (100)

1 (12)

2 ( 5)

2 ( 6)

4 (16)

3 (17)

1 One deferred examination: 5 One deferred examination;

2 One late enrolment ' 3 One transferred from Pass Course ~ 4 Three transferred from Honours Course, 6 One deferred examination.

Final :fonours

H.asters ~ualifying

Enrolled

6

3

Ph.D , students - see report.

Sit tin;?

6

3

Results

l1 Second Class :fonours A: 2 Second Class aonours B 1 Eigh Distinction : 1 Distinction . 1 partial

completion of qualifyine course.