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Head of Dep~tment

THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONJJ, UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN CIVILIZATION

ANNUAL REPORT 1965

53/1966

Professor A. L. Basham, B.A. (Lond.), Ph.D. (Lond.), Hon. D.Litt. (Kurukshetra)

Associate Professor O. Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, B.Sc.(Econ.) (Lond.)

Senior Lecturers I. de Rachewiltz, Dip.Or.Inst. (Naples), Ph.D. (A.N.U.) (Until October 1965) H. H. E. Loofs, Dr. Phil. (Fribourg), Dip. E.N.L.O.V. (Paris) (On leave until June)

Lecturer R. H. P. Mason, M.A. (Cantab.), Ph.D. (A.N.U.) (On leave from August)

Temporary Tutor Miss H. A. Sutherland, B.A. ( )ri911t.::-.l Studies) (.A.N. U.)

Research Assistant Miss L. Callaghan, B.A. (Oriental Studies) (A.N.U.)

Introduction

The Department is responsible for teaching the history of the Far East, Southeast Asia and South Asia from the earliest times to the present day. Emphasis is placed rather on cultural than on political aspects of the subject. During 1965 only pass degree courses have been taught, but from next session onwards the Department envisages the teaching of honours courses. During the 1965 session, the chief development within the Department has been the appointment of Professor Basham with a view to the inclusion of South Asia within the puryiew of the Department. Hitherto, the history of South Asia has only been taught dcwn to about 200 B.C. In future the whole period will be covered. '

1. Staff

Professor A. L. Basham took up his duties as Head of the Department at the beginning of third term.

Dr. S. A. • Rizvi, Professor of History at Jammu and Kashmir University, has been appointed to a Senior Lectureship in Asian Civilization. He will arrive at the beginning of first term 1966.

Mr. J. Caiger, of the De~artment of Far Eastern History, has been appointed Lecturer, and will assume his duties in August 1966.

Dr. I. de Rachewiltz resigned from the Department at the end of October in order to accept a Fellowship in the Department of Far Eastern History, I.A.S.

Miss H. A. Sutherland and Miss L. Callaghan both resigned at the end of the year in order to further their studies abroad.

Mrs. J, Brewster, Mr. J. Caiger and Mrs, A. Kumar gave part-time tutorial assistance during 1965.

The Department wishes to acknowledge its gratitude to Mr. de Crespigny, of the Department of Chinese, for his help throughout the academic year.

Valuable teaching assistance was also given by Mr. L. Castles, Mr. G. Fran~illon, Dr. U. Mahajani and Dr. E. Sadka, of the Research School of Pacific Studies, for which the Department was most grateful.

2. Visitors

Professor Herschel Webb of Columbia University, who was a Visiting Professor in this Department from 6 September to 26 October, gave a course of lectures on Japan to Asian Civilization III (East) students.

Miss Margaret South delivered two lectures on T'ang cultural history to the Asian Civilization II (East) class on 7 and 8 July.

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Asian Civilization (Southeast) students were fortunate in being able to attend lectures and seminars given by Professor Harry Benda (Associate Director of South-East Asian Studies, Yale University), Professor D.G.E. Hall (Professor of the History of South-East Asia at the University of London), and by the visiting Asian Fellow, Prince Subhadradis Diskul of Silpakorn University, Bangkok.

Professor Benda gave a seminar on 22 June·.

Professor Hall gave two seminars ~ one on 24 June on "Problems of South-East Asian History"; the other, on 25 June, entitled "The Hindu Buddhist Period in Indonesian History".

During the period 23 June to 5 August, Prince Diskul gave a series of six illustrated lectures on the history and civilization of Thailand.

Dr. F.H. van Naerssen, of the Department of Indonesian and Malayan Studies of the University of Sydney, on April 7 gave a lecture to the Asian Civilization II (Southeast) class on aspects of the Hinduized period in Indonesia.

On 3 and 4 May, Dr. Hans Wulff of the University of New South Wales lectured on Angkor and on Laotian ethnology and civilization.

3. Lectures and Seminars (delivered outside the Faculty of Oriental Studies)

On the invitation of Dr. D.P. Singhal, Professor Basham delivered three lectures for the Department of History, University of Queensland, on 20, 22 and 23 September. The titles were "The Social Background of Early Buddhism", "Continuity and Change in Indian History", and "Kingship and Society in Ancient India".

During first term, Associate Professor van der Sprenkel gave a series of lectures in the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Melbourne, at the request of Professor H. Simon.

Dr. de Rachewiltz also delivered several lectures for the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Melbourne, at the end of first term.

Dr. de Rachewiltz read a paper entitled "Personnel and Personalities in North China in the Early Mongol Period" at the 1965 Conference on Social Thought and Institutional Change in China, which was held in Chicago from 1-5 September.

At the end of May, Dr. Loafs gave a public lecture in Vienna (organized by the Wiener Gesellschaft fur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik), and gave seminars at the Institute of Ethnology there at the invitation of Professor R. Heine-Geldern.

Dr. Loafs gave a lecture on Buddhism at the RAAF Staff College in Canberra on 24 August.

On 30 September, Dr. Loofs gave a seminar on "Aspects of the Megalithic Problem in South East Asia" as part of a series arranged by the Archaeology section of the Department of Anthropology, 1.A.S.

4, Overseas Leave

Dr. Loafs carried out field-work in the Philippines and .. Cambodia during the first part of his six-months' study leave (from January to June). The latter period was spent visiting scholars, and doing research at many institutions in France, Germany, Austria (where he delivered a lecture and gave seminars), Switzerland, Holland and England.

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Dr. Mason left for Japan on six months' study leave on 10 August. He will visit England briefly on hi~ return journey.

5. Teaching

The first year initial enrolment was 84, which was again a substantial increase on that of t~e previous year (71). Moreover, the number of students who dropped out during the year was about half that of 1964. The standard was good, and 21 pass students passed with Merit. Out of 28 honours students, 4 secured High Distinction and 8 passed with Distinction. The failure rate was lower than that of last year, being 9 out of 71 as against 12 out of 53 the previous year.

The enrolments in Asian Civilization II and III (East) were about the same as in the previous year, but the examination results were of higher standard. Out of a total of 10 examination enrolments in Asian Civilization II (East), 2 students obtained a High Distinction, 3 passed with Distinction, and 3 pass students secured Pass with Merit, one of them of a particularly high standard. In Asian Civilization III (East), out of an examination enrolment of 10, 2 students gained High Distinction, 2 Distinction, and all 4 pass students passed with Merit, 3 of them doing particularly well .

The number of examination enrolments in Asian Civilization II (Southeast) nearly trebled (20 as compared with 7 in 1964). Out of a total of 10 honours students, 2 obtained High Distinction and 3 passed with Distinction. The results of pass students were not on the whole outstanding, but 3 passed with Merit, one of them gaining particularly good marks. The Asian Civilization III (Southeast) class also trebled (9 as against 3 in 1964) .

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I Enrolments Exam I EXAMINATION RESULTS

COURSE Full Part Enrol- H o no-urs r P as s

I Time Time ments '

I HD DI C j P ! N Abs. [>M I p IN Abs1

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' Asian 59 25 71 41

8 9 7 21 13 9 I Civilization I

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31 Asian 6 4 'I 10 2 3 2 11 y~;'.'~t,~zation II I

2 I

~ Asian 9 I 10 2 2 1 1 4 Civilization III I -1 I I (East) I '

.Asian 18 4 20 2 3 4 1 3 7 Civilization II

-1 -1 (Southeast) ; ! I

Asian Civilizatiot 6 ! 3 9 • 2 1 1 2 3

III ( Southeast)

I ii Total number of students enrolled: 136 Total Q-xamination enrolments: 120

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6. Publications

Loofs, H. H. E. 1 Some remarks on "Philippine Megaliths". 1 Asian Studies (Manila), December.

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Loofs, H. H. E. 1 A dying megalithic culture - urgent ethnological research among the Ifugao, Luzon, Philippines. 1 Bulletin of the Internatio~al Committee on Urgent imthropological and Ethnological Research (Vienna), No. 7, 1965.

Loofs, H. H. E. 'South of the south: the image of Vietnam. 1 Hemisphere, December.

Mason, R. H. P. 1 The debate on Poor Relief in the first Meiji Diet. 1 The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2-26, January

van der Sprenkel, O. Berkelbach 'Max Weber on China' reprinted in Studies in the Philosophy of History edited by George H. Nadel, Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row, New York 1965. 198-220.

A. L. Basham