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Annual Re-:>ort, 1963 - Departcent of Far Eastern History.

RESEARCH SCHOO&_QFUPACIFIC STUDIES 0::.aff

Professor

Senior Fellow

Fellows

Senior Research Fellow

Research Fellows

Research Assistants

C. P. FitzGerald

G. Mulder, Drs.

N. Barnard, B.A., Ph.D .; E. S. Crawcour, 11.A., :Ph.D.

Fang Lien-che Tu, Vi.A.

D. Leslie, B.Sc., Diploma of Chinese, Can tab., Master of Letters, Cantab., Doctorat de l'Universite,

H. M. Lo, B.A. Yenching, Ph.D. Can tab.

Mr. T. Sato, M.A., Tokyo. Mr. I. Denda, B.A., Kyoto. Mr. J. Davidson, B.A. (Oriental

Studies) Hons.

Professor FitzGerald returned from study leave in England early in February, and Dr. Hulder le:ft for Holland on study leave in June.

Dr. D. Leslie took up duty as a Research Fellow in February, and Dr. H. M: . Lo at the beginning of Septeober.

Mrs. Fang went to the U.S.A. on leave in September.

In December Associate Professor Wang Ling was appointed to the vacant Professorial Fellowship, and will take up duty in the Depart­ment in the coming acaderaic year.

Mr. I. Denda arrived from Japan in April to take up his appointment as Research Assistant.

Students.

The number of students enrolled increased to seven, approxi­mately double the number ever previously enrolled in the Departraent. This increase is due to the expansion of Oriental Studies in Australian universities over the past five years. Two of the new students were graduates o:f the Faculty of Oriental Studies, School of General Studies, one was a graduate of Sydney, one from Hong Kong: of those previously enrolled, one was from Sydney, and two from South East Asia. This development also reflects the growing interest in the work of the Department taken in the universities o:f Malaysia and Hong Kong.

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Two former students wore awarded the Fh.D. degree - Hr. R.H.F.

Mason for his thesis "Japan's First General Election (1890) and the

Constitutional Develop@ents Leading Tl1.ereto". Hr. J .D. Frodsham

received his ?h.D. in absentia for his thesis "Life and Works of " Hsieh Ling-yun, Duke of K'ang-lo , J85-4JJ A.D.".

i>'.iiss South continued 1vri ting her tb.esis "The Li teratus in T'ang Society during the Y~an-ho Period (806-821)as revealed in the

Life and Work of the Poet Li Ho (79 1-81 7)".

Mr . ?ng ?oh-song, who returned in Harch from a field-trip spent

mostly in Formosa and Hong Kong, has been engaged in writing his

thesis on 11 Ts 'ai Yuan-p' ei a..."'1.d His Contribution to Modern Education in China". Mr . K.S. Liew has been working on research for his thesis

topic "Sung Chiao-jen and the Chinese Revolution of 1911 11•

Iliiss Jviaureen Walters was awarded the Saionji Memorial Scholar­

ship for a year in Japan, and has been in that country working under

Professor H. I'iatsur.mra on b.er research topic "History and Literature of the Heian ? 0riod" .

Mr. R. de Crespig:n.y' s work in this year has been concerned with source material for his thesis on "The Origin of J-; __ o Mediaeval

State in South China".

Mr. J.G. Caiger, who joined the Department in August, has been

preparing some material for his research on "History of M:odern Japanese Education", a..--id I1ir. Chou Hung-hainng has started work on

the earliest sources of Chinese history ~or his thesis on this topic.

During this year Professor FitzGcral- started to collect

material for a work on J.J'.q_ __ Qhig_€_.~H' B.QF.Q.o.:i;:.J_.c-}.,l_<is_!_. A Stu_:1v of Chinese

Cultural Influence ~n Korec:., Tj~l?et ,_ V letil.9:¥1 and Sou+,h Bast Asia which is expected to take sose yon.rs to cor.1plc .:;( A book on the develop­

ment of Chinese furniture, Darbariad Beds: T~e Origin of The Chair

in China, is r.o,·1 in t::o ? res s . For other work co~:::ipleted, see list of publicaticns.

Dr. Noel Barnard hn.s con"ti:n.ued "·ork on t-w-o publication projects concerned respoctivcly with the Bronze Age in ancient China

and a survey of nechanical principles known az1d employed up to and including the Han ;ieriod. ?roparatory work has also been under way

for his visit to the United States early in 1964 at the invitation

of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian I~stitute, Washington, where he will assist in wri·cing up sections of t:l::.oi r forthconing technical

survey of ancient Chinese ri tun.l vessels in Lie Freer Gallery Collection. Dr. Barnard expects to be away for about six months, part of this time being spent in Er-· '.and and on the Continent, returning via Japnn.

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Dr . Crawcour has continued work on the book of readings in Japanese economic and social history, 1808-1942.

In September, Mrs. Fang began a year's leave, having completed a study of bibliophiles and book collecting in the Ming and Ch'ing dynasties .

Dr. Leslie has worked mainly on the history of ideas in early China. Rather than start a new major work, he is completing several smaller items commenced earlier, and is also preparing his two theses for publication. He has had several articles and reviews accepted for publication.

Dr. Lo's raain field of interest is China's foreign relations in the 19th century: diplomatic, economic and cultural . He has been doing research, since his arrival in September, in the economic conditions of 19th century China in connection with his work on foreign concessions in China. This work is based on the unpublished rlritish, French , Belgian and Italian documents as well as published docume~ts of these countries a...~d of China, Japan, Geraany, Russia and the United States. The ~ublication was post­poned to enable the work to be re-written to incorporate in it the large amount of captured Japanese and German archives which have since been made available to hin. The work is expected to be completed before June, 1964.

He is a collaborator of the 4-volu.me Geschichte in Gestalten, edited by ?rofessor Hans Herzfeld, Professor of Modern History and Dean of the Faculty of History in the University of Berlin, and published in 1963 by Fisher Verlag, Munich.

Departmental ?rogramr:ie: l''ir . Sa to, Research Assistant, has been engaged under the direction of Dr. Barnard in the Archives Project which at present ai!ns to record all known Chinese in­scriptions in stone and bronze .

Other Activities

During the first week in March Frofcssor FitzGerald visited the University of Melbourne and gave lectures in the Depart~ent of Oriental Studies . In May he accepted the invitation of the University of Hong Kong to act as external examiner in the History Department, and during the two weeks he was in Hong Kong he also gave three public lectures on topics of Chinese history.

On July 29th-J0th Professor FitzGerald visited Newcastle to deliver a lecture to medical students of the Royal Newcastle Hospital.

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An Oriental Studies Convention, organized by the students of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, School of General Studies, was held in August, and ?rofessor FitzGerald delivered e lecture on "The Imperial Succession Question at the death of the T'ung Chih Emperor". In Septemb er he again visited Melbourne and gave a public lecture on " ':!:'ho fold ier in Chine se History". He also lectured on Chinese domestic architecture to the Department of Architecture and gave seminars in the Department of Oriental Studies and the Department of History. On 8th October, Professor FitzGcrald visited Sydney to give a lecture to the Oriental Society of Australia on "The Military Tradition in China".

Dr. E.S. Crawcour was visiting Associate ?rofessor in the Department of Economics, Stanford University, California in July and August, and gave courses on Theory of International Trade and Japanese Econo.t:1ic History. While in the United States he also attended a Conference on Modern Japan {"The State and Dconomic Development") held at Estes Park, Colorado, in June, and presented a paper on "The Context of Modern Economic Growth in Japan". In September Dr. Crawcou r wont to Chapel Hill, Horth Carolina, where he presented a paper on 11 ?roblcms of Ja~:>anese Economic History" to the American :Cconomic History Association.

In November a very successful Archaeological Er..hibi tion was presented by the A~stralian National University in association with the University of Sydney. The organization of this Exhibition at the University was nainly in the hands of Dr. Barnard, i ~r. J. Go lson anG Dr. H. Loofs, and together they edited a Handbook on the Exhibition entitled Patterns of Culture. Several public lectures were given in conjunction with the Exhibition, one being delivered by Dr. Barnard entitled "The Bronze Age Art of Ancient China". Such was t h e interest in the EY...hibition that subsequently a public raeeting was held in Canb e rra at which an Archaeological Society was formed, Dr, Barnard b e ing elected a menber of the committee.

Dr. Leslie gave a talk to the Cc:.nberra Branch of the Australasian Association of Philosophy on ":i?roblems in Classical Chinese Philosop hy". iie a~so spoke to the Orientalists' Colloq­uiur:i, ' ·1hich h&s con.ti:.1.uod to ooet during the year, on "The Jewish Inscri:;_:>tiorw o f' X ' a i -f'onc11 • ~arly in i 964 Dr. Leslie will be attendinc t~o Cc~sr~ss of Orientalista in lTew Delhi to deliver a pa:;;::ier, aJ.1.d :froD tl.J.ere he will 50 to r:ion.:; Xon _s, wl:.ere he is to give a tall< to the Ii cw L s ia College entitled "Soi:10 ITew· Inter­pretations in the l:..::.;.;;i l o....:ts".

Dr. IIuldcr has :i. c r: iu acted as Assessor :for the Inteniediate and Leavins- e.x'1Dina ti.. ·:':1.s i:a Chino::;e for lJ ew South llale s.

Ser.:iino.rs "\Jere l1...,.:c. over several ter':w 1 :..n conju;:1ction with the Faculty o:f Oriontal Studies, School of Ge~-i~ral Studies, on "Chinese Ilistoriography".

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:i?ublications.

Crawcour, E.S. -

1 Ci1.an . .;es in Japanese cm:i.Llerce in t h e To~-cugawa p eriod.' Journ.al of' Asian Studieo, .:;c;-::III , iv, Aug-.. wt 1963, 387-400.

An Introduction to ICa r:.ibUJ.1. . Can.0errn., 1963 .

'The Ja::.:><U-iese ccono1:iy oa the eve of r.iodernizatioa. 1

Journal of' t:i.1.e Oriental Society o f Ji..u~tralia. II, i, June 1963, 34-41.

' :C roolor:1s of' Ja::.Janese economic history'. Jou.n:.al of Econon ic History, Decenber 1963.

FitzGerald, C. P .-

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China : A short cultural histoI Third 3.evised Edition9 The Cresset Press, London, 19 2.

'Tl1e Ch inese view o:f foreign relations.' Ti1e Uorld Today, XIX, i, January 1963, 9-17.

'The Doxer Rebellion.' lJ e1;-1 Left Revi ew, 19, Harc :1.-A::_:> ri1

1963, 79-BJ.

'Cl1i n ese e:;:-nu1sion i n Central Asia.' Hemisphere, VII, iv, A::.Jril 1963, - 1 '/ -19.

'A fresh look at the Chinese Revolution.' ? acific Affairs, 1GC~VI, i, S:pring 196 3, 47-53.

'South Vietnar.1.' Outlook, VII, iv, August 1963, J-4.

' Religion iu China', 1 :::>an-As ie.nis1:1' , 'The Australian Attitude to Asia' - contributi on s to .Asia: A Handbook.. Anthony Dlo:1d Ltd., London, 1963. (copy n ot yet availaole).

'Chi:ia 1961 to Se:;_Jteober 1962' , Char..ibers' s .~ncyclo\)aedia,

1forld Survey.

'China: new· alternatives.' The Nation, 197, viii, Septeaber 1963, 155-157·

'The dispute between Chi:ia and the Soviet Union. 1 The Australian ':luarterly, :~::;~v , iv, Decoraber 1963, 7-16-.-

The Ch inese View of Their ::? lace in t h e World, Chathan House Essay Serieo Uo.1, H.oynl Institute of Inter.aational Affairs.

Oxford University ? reos, London, 1964. 72?P•