• THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL tn~IVERSITY

FACULTY OF ASIAN STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS

il:lNUAL RiZ?ORT 19 79

General Comments, Courses

Courses continued as in 1978. No new courses were implemented.

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Professor Basham retires from the Headship of the Department with effect from 31 December and is to be succeeded by Dr J. T. F. Jordens for a three year term. The Department farwelled Professor Basham at a luncheon at the University Staff Centre on 30 November ~ when they presented him with a map of the state of New South Wales, dating back to 1831. The map included what is now the Canberra district. All members expressed their regrets at the retirement of Professor Basham and wished him all the best for the future.

A lectureship has been created in the Southeast Section of the Department. This post is to be filled in 1980, while the post of Senior Tutor is to be disestablished.

The Department wishes to express its gratitude to those guest lecturers who visited this year and who devoted some of their time to lectures to students of several of our courses.

Enrolments and Examination Results

Students in undergraduate courses in the Department numbered 344 in 1979, and part-time tutors were employed to assist with tutorials in the larger groups.

Student participation

Student representatives on the Departmental Committee in 1979 were as follows:

El P. C. Mitchell E2 Scott Bamber E3 Donna Bridges

SEl Barend Kersten SE3 Warren Murgatroyd SE4 Alison Venton SES Graham Kelso SE6 None

Sl SS S6 S7

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Florence Le Lee Linda McCosker Anthony Street Linda Mccosker

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on the Departmental Committee.

Visitors

Professor Matsuo Ara of the University of Tokyo was attached to the Department as Visiting Fellow from March for nine weeks. Apart from participating in departmental activities and delivering le~tures on Indo-Islamic arehitecture, Professor Ara also visited other Universities in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane.

Mrs R. Vanamali of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. gave a talk on 'The Colonial Mind and Nirad C. Choudhuri'.

Professor s. Nurul Hasan, formerly Professor and Director of the Advanced Centre ;in History, and Minister for Education, So~ Welfare and Culture in India, was another guest of the Depa.JJDent in 1979. Professor Hasan gave a lecture to students on "The Administrative System of the Mughal Empire" and a Public Lecture entitled "Problems of Edu~ational Development in India since Independence". Whilst in Australia, P-rofesaor Hasan also "IQ.sited Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.

Professor Hans Bielenstein of Colombia University also visited the Department in July and August, and gave a series of six lectures whilst a Visiting Fellow in Far Eastern History, Research School of Pacific Studies.

Other visitors were Chentse Rinpoehe, a Tibetan monk, who gave a talk on "Beliefs and Prac:.tices of Tibetan Buddhism"; Father Joseph Spae, Visiting Professor of Oriental Relig~ons at the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, who spoke on "Aspects of Japanese Religiosity"; Professor Davril Alden of the University of Washington, who gave a lecture on "The Economic Role of the Jesuits in India", and Swami Ranganathananda, one of the leading intellectuals of the Ramakrishna Order, who lectured in the Department on 'Advaita-Vedanta - a modern interpretation'.

Work of Graduate Students

There were 24 candidates for PhD in the Department in 1979, four of whom submitted their theses and are awaiting their results. HA students numbered seven, three of whom have also

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The Department accepted four new PhD candidates during 1979. They are Mr Arya Gampola, Mr Paul Kauffman, Mr Billie So and Mr Joseph Wong. The latter completed his MA thesis in May this year and was awarded an ANU Scholarship to proceed to PhD in the Department. Mr Gampola's supervisors are Professor Basham and Dr Jordens, while Mr Kauffman is being supervised by Professor Basham, Dr Jordens and Dr Terwiel. Mr So's work is being super­vised by Dr Jeff cott and Professor Wang Gungwu, and Dr Gardiner and Dr Caiger will co-supervise Mr Wong's work.

Two new students were admitted to MA candidature this year. They are }ir G. Compton who holds a Masters scholarship and who is supervised by Professor Basham and Dr Jordens; and Mr E. Perera, who as a private student is being jointly supervised by Professor Basham and Dr Loof s-Wissowa.

One student, Miss D. Jessop, was admitted to MA Qualifying.

Staff

Professor and Head of Department

Readers:

Senior Lecturers:

Lecturers:

Senior Tutor:

Research Assistant:

A.L. Basham, BA, PhD, DLitt (Lond.), Hon.DLitt (Kuruk), FSA, FAHA

S.A.A. Rizvi, MA, PhD, DLitt (Agra), FAHA

U.H.E. Loofs-Wissowa, DipOrLang (Paris), DrPhil (Frib.), Chev. Palmes Academiques

J.T.F. Jordens, Lie.en Philos., PhD (Louvain), DipEd (Melb.)

R.H.P. Mason, MA (Cantab.), PhD

K.H.J. Gardiner, BA, PhD (Lond.)

J.G. Caiger, BA (Syd. & Lond.), PhD

A.L. Kumat, B.A. (Oriental Studies), PhD

B.J. Terwiel, drs Utrecht, .(Anthropology), PhD

C.A. Jeffcott, BA (N.Z.), }IA (Oxford), PhD

I.M. Proudfoot, BA (Oriental Studies) PhD

M. Hutchinson, BA

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Staff Resear-ch

D,r Rizvi has been awarded a further ARGC grant to enable him to continue ~is social and religious history of the Muslims in India . During his current fieldwork, he will also collect material for his study of Iranian history, with special reference to the recent revolution.

Dr Loof s-Wissowa contiµued work on the Vietnam archaeological translation project, and on the ARGC-spo~sored project on TL-dating of South East Asian prehistoric pottery. He also continued work on his books on the archaeology of South­east Asia, and on prehistoric bronze finds in Southeast Asia, couunissioned by the Union Internationale des Sciences Pre­historiques et Protohistoriques.

Dr Jordens finished his book on Shraddhananda which was accepted for publication by O.U.P., Delhi.

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Dr Gardiner has continued his work on the translation of Paulus Diaconus' Historia Langobardorum with Dr de Rachewiltz, and the paper given in 1978 "On Translating Paul the Deacon" has now gone to press. He is also continuing his research into Korean legends and is preparing a paper on 'Some Aspects of the Legend of King Yuri Myong'.

Dr Ktunar is continuing her work on the santri com­munity and has begun work on 19th century Javanese concepts of society.

Dr Jeffcott continued his research on the economic and social history of the later Chinese Empire.

Dr Proudfoot is continuing his study of Malay texts dealing with traditi.:mal concepts of authority.

Staff Movements, Activities

Professor Basham, as President of the International Conference on Traditional Asian Medicine, wishes to record his thanks and those of the ICTAM Organizing Connnittee to Faculty and to the Department for their valuable contributions both to the funds and to the general organization and running of the Conference. The Conference was held from 2 to 7 September 1979 and was at­tended by nearly 300 delegates from Australiaa:id overseas, and led to the establishment of an International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTA.M), of which Professor Basham was elected President. It is hoped to establish the head off ice of IAS1'Al1 in Canberra and steps have already been taken to

.legally incorporate the Association in the A.C.T.

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Other members of staff involved in the running of the Conference were Miss Hutchinsons whose handling of the delegates' accommodation and associated problems was faultless. Mrs Holyoake was Conference Secretary and is to be an Associate Secretary of L\STAM. The Departmenta1 Sec!'etarJ.es, Mrs Williams and Mrs Mc­cusker provided valuable clerical assistance throughout. Thanks are also due to Hrs Zonneveldt for her cheerful cooperation under great stress during the week of the Conference.

Professor Basham delivered the Inaugural Speech on the opening day of the Conference which was attended by the Minister for the Capital Territory, Sir Mark Oliphant and the Vice-Chancellor. Professor Basham also convened a panel on The Religious and Philo­sophical Background of Traditional Indian Medicine , and chaired two Business Meetings during which a provisional constitution for IASTAM was dra,,m up and a council elected.

Mr Ken Zysk, a PhD Candidate in the Department also contributed to the successful running of the Conference,serving as a member of the Organizing Connnittee and handling all visual aids requirements throughout the Conference. He, with Professor Basham~ was largely responsible for the whole idea of ICTAM in the first place, since it was originally his idea to hold a conference on traditional Indian medicine from the historical viewpoint. From this idea the wider view of ICTAN was born .

At the beginning of the year, Professor Basham attended the Annual Session of the Indian Historical Records Commission in Aurangabad ~ and visited the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Professor Basha'll was elected Honorary President of the South Asian Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand (SASAANZA)for 1979/80. He has now left Australia for two months:, during which time he will visit India and Pakistan prior to his return in February . In August he is to take up an appointment for twelve months as Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Dr Rizvi is currently on fieldwork in India, Pakistan and the Middle East to gather information for his proposed public­ations. He left in October and will return in February 1980.

Dr Proudfoot attended the RSPacS School Seminar on 'The Indonesian Connection in November and delivered a paper entitled 'The Early Indianised States of Indonesia : Religion and Social Control'. Throughout the year he has continued to act as Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Asian Studies and as Faculty represent­ative on the Faculty of Arts Committee.

Dr Jordens attended the Conference on Methods i~ South Asian History, which was organized by the South Asian F.istory section of the Research School of Pacific Studies. He read a paper at the Conference. He has continued to serve on the Grad-

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uate Scholarship Committee, was elected as meraber of the Faculty~ Student Matters Committee, and appointed Faculty member on the Intermediate Awards Committee of the Board of General Studies.

Dr Gardiner was invited to give two talks at the University of Melbourne's Department of East Asian Studies . The lectures were on the Han Dynasty and took place in March. He was elected in 1979 to the Chairmanshfp of the Faculty's East Asia Studies Committee.

Dr Loofs-Wissowa continued his Centre for Continuing Education classes, conducting a course on the cultural history of Southeast Asia, as part of the University Preparations Scheme. He also attended the International Conference on Traditional Asian Medicine where he read a paper in the section on Anthropological and Sociological studies of Asian medicine entitled 'Traditional medicine of the Ifugao (Philippines) in a changing world'. Dr Loofs is also Secretary-General of the Pacific Commission of the Union Internationale des Sciences Prehistoriques et Protohistoriques, and editor for Southeast Asia of the Bulletin of Inda-Pacific Prehisto.ry Association.

In May, Dr Mason was invited by Professor J .I. Ack­royd to visit the Department of Japanese at the University of Queensland in order to give four lectures on Saigyo HoshI. These lectures will be avail~ble later in printed form as an 'Occasional Paper' put out by that Department . Dr Mason is also Faculty representative on the Faculty of Economics Committee, and a member of the Undergraduate Awards Committee of the. Board of the School of General Studies.

On behalf of the Department, Dr Mason helped organize the .Faculty's programme for Information Day on 4 July, when the University sought to intro<luce itself and its courses to pros­pective new students.

After returning from a field tr~p in Assam, Dr Ter­wiel wrote his report in book form under the · ti'tle The Tai of Assam, Their Ceremonies and the Reconstruction of Ancient Tai Ritual. He also wrote a short monograph on Phibun Songkhram for a series on Asian Leaders. Later in the year he prepared for further fieldwork in Assam. Dr Terwiel also visited some Tai tribes in Assam, following his attendance at two conferences in India in late 1978. He stayed amongst these peoples throughout January 1979. He is very shortly to leave Canberra to visit these people again~ with the aid of an ARGC grant.

Dr Kumar attended the Third New Zealand Conference on Asian Studies at the University of Auckland from 13 to 16 May this year. She presented a paper entitled : The Javanese Kyai: A re­examination of his Role as a 'Cultural Broker' .

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At a meeting of the Board of the School of General Studies in November, the Committee recommended that the Board recommend to the Vice-Chancellor that Dr Kumar be appointed to senior lecturer in the Southeast Asian section from 1 January 1980. Professor Basham on behalf of the members of the depart­ment congratulated Dr Kumar on her promotion.

Dr Kumar also took part in the RSPacS School Seminar Series, 1979) 1 The Indonesian Connection', reading a paper en­titled 'The Peasantry and the State on Java: Changes of relation­ship, 17th to 19th centuries'. During 1979 she served as Faculty representative on the Schools and Admissions Committees, and will take over from Professor Basham as Departmental representative on the Publications Committee in 1980.

Edward Perera, an t1A candidate in the Department, attended the International Conference on Indian Ocean Studies in Perth in August. As Mr Perera was in a sense the department's representative, his expenses were met partly by the Conference and partly by the department. Mr Perera submitted a brief report on his trip to the Conference, where he played a useful part in its deliberations , reading a paper entitled 11The Role of Sri Lanka as a medium of Cultural Exchanges and Influences in the Indian Ocean Region - a historical analysis 11

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Amareshwar Galla, a PhD candidate in the Department, organized during the second half of the year a series of seminars on South Asia. Papers were given by both staff and students,and the series was very rewarding and successful.

J.T.F. Jordens Acting Head Department of Asian Civilizations

Publications 1979

Gardiner, K.H.J.

Jordens, J.T.F.

Kumar , A.L.

Loofs-Wissowa, H.H.E .

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'Beyond the Archer and his son: Koguryo and Han C:hina', Papers on Far Eastern History, Vol , 20, September 1979.

·'On Translating Paul the Deacon 11, in

Parergon; (Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medi­eval and Renaissance Studies )no.21, pp.43-51.

Dayananda SarasvatI, his Life and Ideas, O.U.P., Delhi = 1978; reprint 1979.

Shraddhananda : Man of many causes , accepted by O. U.P., Delhi , for public­ation.

"Developments in Four Societies over the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries~' in Harry Aveling (ed.) , Tne Development of Indonesian Society From the Cuming of Islam to the Present Day, University of Queensland Press, 1979.

' Javanese Historiography in and of the 'colonial period' ~ a case study', in A.J.S. Reid and David Narr (eds.), Perceptions of the Past in Southeast Asia> in press.

"Tektites in Thai Prehistory", Asian Perspectives, vol.XX, No. 1 (1979), pp . 113-129, 8 pls.

"Problems of Continuity between the pre­Buddhist and Buddhist Periods in Central Thailand, with special reference to U-Thong", in R.B . Smith & W. Watson (eds.), Early South East Asia. Essays in Archaeology, History and Historical ~eog~~' pp.342-351. Oxford U.P, 1979.

Review of Iconographie du Cambodge post­angkorien by Madeleine Giteau. Paris: tcole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient, 1975 (Puhl. de l'E.F.E.O . j C), Indo-Iranian Journal, vol . 21, No . l (Jan.1979), pp. 72-74.

Mason, R.H.P.

Proudfoot, I.M.

Terwiel, B.J.

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'Suematso Kencho and patterns of Japanese cultural and political change in the 1830s', Papers on Far Eastern History, Vol. 20, September 1979.

'Interpreting Hahabharata Episodes as Sources for the History of Ideas: Journal of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute , vol . 60 (1979),in press.

Monks and Magic, second revised edition, London: Curzon Press , 1979.

'The Origin and Meaning of the Thai "City Pillar"', Journal of the Siam Society , vol . 66, Pt.2 July 1978, pp . 159-171.

1 Tai Funeral Customs: Towards a Re-­construction of Archaic-Tai Ceremonies', Anthropos, Vol , 74 ~ 1979,pp.393-432.

'The Origin of the T ' ai Peoples Re­considered', Oriens Extremus, Vol.25, Pt . 2 1978, pp.239-258.

' Tattooing in Thailand's History', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1979, Pt . 2, pp.156-166.

(Editor and contributor) ~ Seven Probes in Rura l South-East Asia , Gaya: Centre for South-East Asian Studies,1979.

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DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS ANALYSIS OF STUD&~T PERFORMANCE

Percentage of Number Enrolled Pe rcentage of No. sitting 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Subject Enrolled Sitting Wa stage Failur e Sitting High Dis tine tion Credit Pass Fail o r unit as at Dis tine tion

30 .4. 79 No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. % No. %

El 62 (100) 54 (87) 8 (13) 15 ( 28) 54 (100) 10 (18) 16 (30) 13 (24) 15 (28) E2 15 ( 100) 11 (73) 4 (27) 2 (18) 11 ( 100) 3 (2 7) .2 (18) 4 (36) 2 (1 8 ~ E3 13 (100) 16~ (100) 1 ( 6) 16 1 ( 100) 1 (6) 7 (44) 4 (25) 2 (13 ) 1 ( 6 ', E4 17 .(100) 15 (88) 2 (12) 152

(100) 5 (33) 6 (40) 3 (20) EHA 2 (100) 1 (50) 1 (50) 1 (100) 1 ( 100) EHB 2 ( 100) 28 (100) 28 (100) 2 ( 100) EHC 2 1 (SO) 1 (50) 1 ( 100) SEl 51 ( 100) 41 (80) 10 (20) 3 ( 7) 41 (100) 1 ( 2) 11 (27) 11 (27) 15 ( 36) 3 ( 7) SE3 16 ( 100) 13 ( 81) 3 (19) 2 (15) 13 (100) 1 (8) 2 (15) 4 (31) 4 (31) 2 (15) SE4 22 (100) 183 (82) 4 (18) 18 ( 100) 2 (11) 14 (78) 2 (11) SES 2 3 ( 100) 33 ( 100) 1 (33) 1 (33) 1 (33) SE6 23 ( 100) 18 (78) 5 (22) 18 (100) 1 (5) 4 (22) 4 (22) 9 (50) SERA 4 (100) 3 (75) 1 (25) 3 ( 100) 1 (33) 2 (67) SERB 4 ( 100) 3 (75) 1 (25) 3 (100) 1 (33) 1 (3 3) 1 ( 33) SEHC 6 ( 100) 5 (83) 1 (17) 5 ( 100) 1 (20) 1 (20) 3 (60) SEHD 1 16 (100)

16 (100) 1 (iOO) SEHE 1 27(100) 2 ( 100) 2 ( 100) SEHZ 7 ( 100) 5 ( 71) 2 ( 29) 57 ( 100) 1 ( 20) 2 (40) 2 (40) Sl 11 ( 100) 114(100) 1 (9) 11 ( 100) 5 ( 46) 4 (36) (9) (9) SS 8 ( 100) 6 ( 75) 2 ( 25) 54 ( 100) 1 (17) 3 ( 50) 2 (33) S6 8 ( 100) 85 (100) 8 ( 100) 7 ( 87) i ( 13) S7 12 ( 100) 119 (9 2) 1 ( 8) 1 (9) 115 (100) 2 (18) 4 (36) 3 ( 2 7) 1 (9) SHC 1 2 (100) 29 (100) 1 (50) 1 (50) Islam.Civ. 8 (100) 6 (75) 2 (25) 6 (100) 1 (17) 5 (83) AsCiv IVH l (De ferred until March 1980) AsCiv IVH(PO) 1 (To be completed in 19 80) AsCiv/HinIVH 1 ( 100) 1 1 (100)

1 3 added after 30/4/79 and one result defh·red ( = 6%) 6 One M...<\ Qualif. 2 One result deferred (= 7%) 7 One deferred res..il.t 3 One added after 30/4/79 8 Result deferred 4 1 result deferred, 1 MA Qualif. 9 One added after 30/4/79 5 1 result deferred (= 9%)

Enrolled (as at JO April 1979)

Final Honours:

Asian Civilizations IVH AsCiv/Hin IVH

Masters Qualifying

Masters Degree

PhD

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2

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Results

Deferred until March 1980 Hl

One degree awarded, two have submitted and await results. The others are in pro;ress

All four candidates have sub­mitted their theses and await

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results. The rest are in progress.