- 64/1970 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

DEPAR'Thi!ENT OF ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS

ANNUAL REPORT 1969

Head of Department

Professor A.L. Basham, B.A., Ph.D., D. Litt.(Lond.) Hon.D.Litt.(Kuru~ Associate Professor

O. Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, B.Sc.(Econ.) (Land.) Reader S.A.A.Rizvi, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt. (.Agra) Senior Lecturers

H.H.E. Loafs, Dip.Or.Lang.(Paris), Dr.Phil.(Frib.)

Wirjosuparto Sutjipto, B.A. (Gadjah Mada), M.A., Ph.D. (Indonesia) R.H.P. Mason, M.A. (Ca.ntab.), Ph.D. Lecturers'

K.H.J. Gardiner, B.A., Ph.D. (Land.)

J.G. Caiger, B.A. (Syd. and Lond.), Ph.Da Introduction

On 10 October 1969 Council approved the change of the Deparbnent 1 s name to the Department of Asian Civilizations.

The Department is responsible for teaching the histozy of the Far East, Southeast Asia and South Asia from the earliest times to the present daJ7. Thlphasis is placed rather on cultural than on political aspects of the subject, with a view to throwing light on the contempora:zy culture of the regions concerned. All courses are now taught at both honours and pass levels, and Dr. Rizvi has repeated his course in Literazy Persian which is administered by the Department of South Asian and Buddhist Studies.

The Department held elections in August to vote for three student representatives to attend Departmental meetings, so that student viewpoints could be put forward. Those elected were Miss Merrilyn Fitzpatrick, Asian Civ. IVEH, Mr. Allan Behm, Asian Civ. IISH and Mr. Paul Loh, Asian Civ. IISE. In elections held later in the month, Mr. Roger Irvine, an Asian Civ. IIIEH student, was chosen as the Asian Civilization representative to the Faculizy­ Educa.tion Committee, and was henceforth also invited to attend the Departmental meetings. However, the small number of votes cast indicate great lack of interest on the part of the students. The Department also held general staff/student meetings during the year. Although the meetings were well advertised, and were organized with a view to discussing student problems, they were extreme.Ly poorly attended. - 64/1970 2.

In view of the large increase in student numbers this year, the Department was compelled to employ a considerable number of part­ time tutors, for the first year class in particular. The Department wishes to express its gratitude to these tutors without whose help the teaching of so many students would have been impossible.

The Kalidasa Society, in conjunction with the Department, held a series of lectures on Asian Religions during second tem.. All of them were well attended. MoGt members of the Department held seats on the panel which was chaired by a different Chainnan on each occasion. During third tem., the Keiidasa Society sponsored an evening during which visiting Swami Ranganathananda was guest speaker. The subject of his public lecture was "The Spirit of Indian Culture." Swami Ranganathananda also held a cloi:ied seminar on "Tradition and Change in India" the following day"

Staff

The appointment of a new Senior Lecturer, Dr. J.T.F. Jordens of Melbourne University (Dept. of Indian Studies) was officially confim.ed on 30 October this year. Dr. Jordens will help with the lecturing of students in the South Asian Civilization section and will take up his appointment on 1 Fabrua:cy 19700

Professor Basham was presented with an engraved and inscribed cigar box by His Excellency the High Commissioner for India, Mr. Thomas, at an infom.al dinner on 28 April. Th8 ...,ift was made on behalf of the Government of India in recognition of Pro~e ssor Basham's services on the occasion of the visi+, to Auscralia last year of the Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indirc. Gandhi.

During the year Adult E~uc~tion courses were given by

Professor Basham (Religions of the ,,-;0rld) 1 Dr. Mason and Dr. Caiger (Japanese Language and Civ:i.lizatic1) and Dr. Loofs (Southeast Asian Civilization). Dr. Loafs also lactured to the Canberra Archaeological Society in June on "Recent Excav&.':ions in Thailand".

Dr. Caiger and Dr. Mason gave a broadcast to school students on the A.B. c. in July this yea,r. The programme was called "Two Asian Powers: Japan Pt.3" and was later selected as one of the entries for the 1969 Japan Prize for educatio~2i broadcasts.

Research

Associate Professor van der Sprenkel has made considerable progress this year with his bibliographical project, and his Australian Research Grants Committee grant has been extended to continue for 1969 and 1970. The increase allows for the employment of a second Research Assistant, whose task will be largely the indexing of material already ~~mpiled. Professor van der Sprenkel has had an article published by the A.N.U. Pross in pamphlet fom., explaining the methods employed in compiling the bibliograpcy, which has been sent to scholars and libraries all over the world. Replies received so far are ver:y encouragingo Professor van der Sprenkel would like to pa;y tribute to Mrs. Miriam Rose, who has been his research assistant during 1969, for all her valuable help without which he would not have been able to make such satisfactory progress.

Dr. Loafs and Professor William Watson of the University of London directed excavations at the fourth season of the Thai-British Archaeological Expedition at Kok Charoen, Northern Thailand again in January and Februru:y this year. Finds from the four seasons' work ' . - 64/1970 3.

have been shipped to Australia where they are being studied at the A.N. u. 1 s Faculty of Oriental Studies under the supervision of nr.Loofs·. Work has already begun on the washing and piecing together of potsherds, funds having been awarded by the ARGC to pay for part-time assistants who are in the main students wishing to work during the holidays.

Staff Movements

Professor Basham visited Melbourne in May to give a talk on the "Pali Jatakas" at Monash University, where he was the guest of the Department of Histo:ry.

Earlier in March he gave a talk at the Annual Conference of NASFA at the University of Queensland Union. In September he lectured to students of the Histo:ry Department at Melbourne University and gave an extension lecture on 'Evil and Suffering in Indian Religion' in the evening. Professor Basham was again invited to accept the Visiting Professorship at Banaras Hindu University this year and left Canberra for India on 6 December, accompanied by his wife and son. He will retw::n at the end of Februa:cy.

In August, Professor Basham, Dr. Loafs, Dr.Caiger and Dr. R. Kumar of the Research School of Social Sciences famed a panel of speakers at the Australian Jaycees 1 "Operation Friendship" seminar in Cooma. This was organized by Mr. Ron Hughes of 2CA and proved to be a great success.

In April, Dr. Ma.son visited the University of Queensland, and gave two lectures to students in the department of Histo:ry there, outlining the scope and contents of courses offered by the Department.

Dr. Rizvi returned from London at the end of June, having been Visiting Senior Fellow in the Department of Histo:ry, School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London for six months. In September he attended an international seminar connected with the quin cen tena:cy of Guru Nanak at the Punjabi University, Patiala, India, at which he delivered a paper on Indian Sufism and Guru Nanak. The trip was sponsored jointly by the ANU anct. the Patiala University. At the end of November Dr. Rizvi took up a Leverhu.lme Fellowship in Indonesia and Malaysia. While there, he will look for significant Arabic and Persian manuscripts, especially on sufism, returning to Canberra at the beginning of March. •

Dr. Gardiner returned from study leave in London on 1 June·. He spent six months at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Museum, and wrote an article while there called "The Hou-Han-shu as a source for the early expansion of Kogu:cyo", which has already been accepted for publication in MONUMENTA SERICA in 1970. Dr. Gardiner al so visited the Charles IV University in Prague while on study leave, and gave a talk there on Korean studies.

Dr. Caiger is at present in Japan on study leave and will not return until Februa:ry 1970. His leave dates from 8 September and during these six months he will collect material for the biograpey of the headmaster of a national high school, and for an article on the unsuccessful efforts of Prince Mikasa to prevent the revival of National Foundation Day. He will also t:cy to assess the published evidence of the Ienaga textbook trial. . . • 4. Visitors to the Department

This year the Department was honoured with the presence of Professor A.H. Dani, Professor and Head of the Department of Archaeology at Peshawar University, West Pakistan, who visited for six months as Asian Fellow for 1969. Professor Dani is a distinguished archaeologist who discovered a prehistoric cave site at Sanghao, the Gandhara graves of the bronze and iron ages, and the ancient Greek city of Pushkalavati. He has written a book on Indian palaeograplzy" and is at present working on another. Professor Dani, who was accompanied by his wife, also visited the universities of Queensland, Sydney, Melbourne and Western Australia where he lectured students and public alike. In November he attended a conference on Buddhist Archaeology and Art in Colombo, Ceylon, returning briefly to Australia before his journey back to India on 7 December. While wi"c n the Department Professor Dani conducted a course on palaeograpey and a series of seminars on Buddhist beliefs and religion in the arts of India and Pakistan, followed by three seminars on the Harappa Civilization. He also gave two public lectures at the A.N.U. on archaeology- in West and East Pakistan. The Department would like to express its good wishes to Professor and Mrs. Dani on their return to Peshawar.

Dr. w.z. Mulder of the Department of Oriental Studies, University of Sydney, gave a public lecture and two closed lectures on Japanese art when he came to Canberra as guest of the Department in early July.

July also saw visits from Dr. W.H. McLeod, Professor of History at Baring Christian College, Batala, India, and Dr. J.T.F.Jordens from the Department of Indian Studies, Melbourne University. Both lectured students on certain aspects of Indian culture and religion. Courses

Teaching in all units has led to very satisfactory results in the annual examinations, and the Department has this year seen its first group of Fourth Year Honours students obtain their BAOS (Hons) degrees. Numbering eight in all, two of the students, Miss.Merrilyn Fitzpatrick and Miss. Catherine Robertson obtained First Class Honours and will share the Canberra Association of University Women Prize. Students in the Fourth Year Honours and other courses benefited this year from lectures given by members of other departments in the University, and the Department wishes to thank the following for their help in this respect: Dr.E. Kamenka, Dr. P.Luey, Professor J. Passmore, Professor C.Williams, Dr , H. Kinloch and Dr.I. Wilson.

The large number of students in Asian Civilization I this year, will undoubtedly lead to an increase in student numbers for the second year courses in the New Year,

The Department has this year been responsible for the supervision of thirteen Ph.D. students and two M.A. students, one of whom - Mr.V.J.A. Flynn - has recently been promoted to Ph.D. level. Publications

Basham, A.L. (ed.) Papers on the Date of Kaniska submitted to the Conference on the Date of Kaniska, London 20-22 April, 1960; Leiden; E.J.Brill 1969,478 PP• - ..

5. Publications cont'd.

Gardiner, K.H.J. The Early History of Korea: The Historical Development of the Peninsula up to the Introduction of Buddhism in the Fourth Century A.D.; Canberra,A.N.U. Press, 1969, 78 pp.

Loofs, H.H.E. "Note on the Distribution of Pueraria mirifica". The Natural History Bulletin of the Sialll Society, vol. 22, pp.327-8.

"Rapport sommaire sur la recherche pre­ et protohistorique en cours en Asiedu Sud-Est et en Australasien. L'Information Archeologigue (Paris), vol.11, no.68.

"The Heritage of the Khmers". Hemisphere, vol.13, pp.17-24.

Mason, R.H.P. Japan's First General Election,1890. CaJnbridge University Press, 254 pp.

van der Sprenkel, o. Berkelbach "A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Writings on Chinese History,Thought and Institutions: an Announcement". Canberra, A.N.U. Press, 1969, 12 pp.

~- o $Ii Ii•••••••••• o •et••• R. H.P. Mason Acting Head of Department 6. 64/1970 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS EXAMINATION RESULTS - Wastage plus High Unit Enrolled Wastage Failure Sitting Distinction Distinction Credit Pass Fail Asian Civilization I 171 38 (22%) 62 ( 36.%) 159 (93%) 8 (5%) 22 (14%) 37 (23%) 65 (40%) 24 ( 15%) Asian Civ. IIS 19 1 (5%) 18 ( 95%) 1 (6%) 8 (44%) 8 (44%) 1 (6%) Asian Civ. IIS (H) 3 1 3* 1 1 Asian Civ. IIIS 2 2 1 1 Asian Civ. IIIS(H) 1 - 1 1 Asian Civ. IISE 23 26** 3 ( 11%) 8 (30%) 9 (35%) 5 (19%) Asian Civ. IISE(H) 10 10 (100%) 2 (20%) 4 (40%) 4 (40;~) Asian Civ. IIISE 18 1 (5%) 1 (5%) 17 (94%) 1 (6%) 7 (41%) 5 (29%) 4 (23%) Asian Civ. IIISE(H) 2 1 2 ( 100%) 1 (50Sb) 1 (50%) Asian Civ. IIE 37 5 (13%) 18 (49%) 36 (97%) 1 (3%) 3 (8%) 7 (19%) 13 (36%) 13 (36%) Asian Civ. IIE (H) 12 12 (100%) 3 (25%) 3 (25%) 5 (42.%) 1 (8%) Asian Civ. IIIE 16 4 (25%) 15 (94%) 2 (13%) 5 (33%) 5 ( 33?~) 4 (27%) Asian Civ. IIIE (H) 3 4 1 (25%) 3 ( 75J;)

Enrolled Sitting Results Final Honours 8 8 3 First Class honours 3 Second Class honours (a) 2 Second Class honours (b) Masters Qualifying 1 1 Credit Masters Degree Nil Footnote, :* Examination for one student,Mrs.C.Lampert deferred Ph.D . 14 (None have yet finalised their study). till March 1970 due to illness. ** Miss.M.L.Jacques' examination deferred. Taken in December. Result as yet unknown.