Classical Civilizations of South-East Asia

Vladimir Braginsky

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780700714100
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136848865
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

With particular emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, this collection provides a multifaceted and representative picture of the classical civilizations of South-East Asia which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field, as well as providing a number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value.

Appendix 1

BRIEFLY ABOUT THE AUTHORS

1. Education, academic degrees

2. Career

3. Professional interests

4. Main publications

5. Sources

A.J. Allott (1930–)

1. BA (Hons) in Russian Language and Literature, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London; Postgraduate training in linguistics and phonetics, SOAS; Introductory course of Chinese, SOAS; Language training in Burma.

2. 1953–1990 Lecturer in Burmese, SOAS; 1980–1996 Honorary Secretary of the Britain–Burma Society.

3. Burmese lexicography and grammar, modern Burmese literature, literary criticism, publishing and censorship, language policy.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects (see Allott 1996:39–40); books: (with Stewart et al.) Burmese–English Dictionary, 1963, 1969, 1980; Inked Over, Ripped Out: Burmese Storytellers and Censors, 1993; The End of the First Anglo-Burmese War: The Burmese Chronicle Account of How 1826 Treaty of Yandabo was Negotiated, 1994; (with J. Okell) Burmese/Myanmar: a Dictionary of Grammatical Forms, 2001.

5. Personal communication of A.J. Allott.

E.C.G. Barrett (1909–1986)

1. BA (Cantab.), Jesus College, Cambridge.

2. 1931–1957 Civil service in Brunei and Malaya, Military service; 1957–1971 Lecturer in Malay, SOAS.

3. Malay language, literature, culture.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects.

5. Who Was Who 1992:43; personal communication of R. Jones; Handbook 1999:63.

C.O. Blagden (1864–1949)

1. BA Lit.Hum; MA, Corpus Christi College, Oxford; D.Litt. (Hon.), the University of Rangoon.

2. 1888–1897 Civil service in Malaya, Singapore; 1917–1935 Reader in Malay, SOAS; 1921–1935 Dean of the SOAS; 1933–1935 Head of the Department of South East Asia and the Islands, SOAS; 1936–1948 Additional Lecturer in Malay and in Old and Medieval Mon, SOAS; 1910–1929, 1933 Member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society; 1916–1918, 1922–1924, 1929 Member of the Council of the Royal Anthropological Institute (the UK).

3. Malay language, literature, folklore, history; anthropolgy of the Malay Peninsula; Mon language, culture, epigraphy.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects (see Teeuw and Emanuels 1961:94); introductions to various books on Malay subjects; ‘Mon Inscriptions’ in C. Duroiselle and C.O. Blagden. Epigraphia Birmanica, 1920, 1923, 1928, 1935; books: (with W.W. Skeat) Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula, Vol. 1–2, 1906; (with R.O. Winstedt) A Malay Reader, 1917; An English–Malay Phrase Book, 1934.

5. Who Was Who 1952:108–109, Jones 1984:138–139, Handbook 1999:60.

J.H.C.S. Davidson (1941–)

1. BA (Hons.) Australian National University; Ph.D (Sino-Indian Studies) University of Delhi.

2. 1968–1971 Fellow in Vietnamese, SOAS; 1971–1990 Lecturer in Vietnamese, SOAS.

3. Vietnam and China; Vietnamese language, literature, theatre; archaeology of South East Asia; Asian religions, particularly Buddhism.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects (see Parnwell 1988:15); editor of the collections in honour of Simmonds, Henderson, Milner (see References).

5. Personal communication of J.H.C.S. Davidson, Handbook 1999:63.

C.W. Dunn (1877–1966)

1. MA Classics, Trinity College, Cambridge.

2. 1899–1934 Civil service in Burma; 1936–1948 Additional Lecturer in Burmese, SOAS.

3. Burmese language, literature, culture.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects, mainly in the Journal of Burma Research Society; books: (with Stewart et al.) Burmese–English Dictionary, 1940, 1950, 1955, 1963, 1969, 1981.

5. Who Was Who 1972:328; Journal of Burma Research Society.

E.D. Edwards (1889–1957)

1. Education?

2. 1912–1921 Work in China; 1921–1931 Lecturer in Chinese, SOAS; 1931–1939 Reader in Chinese, SOAS; 1939–1954 Professor of Chinese, SOAS; the 1950s Head of Percival David Foundation.

3. Chinese language and literature; literatures of the Far East and South East Asia.

4. Chinese Prose Literature of the T’ang Period, 1937–8; The Dragon Book, 1938; Bamboo, Lotus, and Palm, 1948 (anthologies of translations and excerpts on China, the Far East and South East Asia).

5. Anonymous 1957.

Hla Pe (?–)

1. BA (Hons.) University of Rangoon; Diploma in Education, University of London, Ph.D in Burmese literature, University of London.

2. 1942–46 Burmese language broadcaster, BBC; 1946–48 Additional Lecturer in Burmese, SOAS; 1948–54 Lecturer in Burmese, SOAS; 1954–65 Reader in Burmese, SOAS; 1965–80 Professor of Burmese, SOAS.

3. Burmese language, lexicography, literature, history, Buddhism in Burma.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects (see Hla Pe 1985:211–214); books: (with Stewart et al.) Burmese–English Dictionary, 1940, 1950, 1955, 1963, 1969, 1981; Burmese Proverbs, 1962; Konmara Pya Zat. Vol. 1, 1952; Burma. Literature, Historiography, Scholarship, Language, Life and Buddhism, 1985 (collected articles).

5. Hla Pe 1976, Simmonds 1985:v–vi, Anonymous 1985:215, Handbook 1999:62.

C. Hooykaas (1902–1979)

1. BA, MA and Ph.D – all in Leiden State University.

2. 1929–1939 Officer in Balai Pustaka (Popular Literature Bureau), Batavia; 1939–1941 Government Linguist for Bali and Lombok; 1946–1949 Acting Professor of Malay, University of Indonesia; 1950–1952 Temporary Lecturer in Old Javanese, SOAS; 1952–1970 Reader in Old Javanese, SOAS; 1972–1979 Organiser of the project for the preservation and catalogising of Balinese manuscripts.

3. Balinese, Javanese and Malay language and literature; Balinese religion and culture.

4. Articles and papers on the above-mentioned subjects (see Hinzler 1980); more than 30 books, among them: Over Maleische Literatuur, 1937, 1947; The Old Javanese Ramayana Kakawin, 1958; Agama Tirtha, 1964; (with Goudriaan) Stuti and Stava, 1971; Kama and Kala, 1971; Religion in Bali, Iconography of Religions, 1973; Cosmogony and Creation, 1974; The Balinese Poem Basur, an Introduction to Magic, 1978.

5. Swellengrebel 1980, Handbook 1999:62.

J.M. Jacob (1923–)

1. BA Classics, University of Leeds; Postgraduate studies, Classics. University of Cambridge; Training in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, SOAS; Study of Cambodian, Paris.

2. 1952–1987 Lecturer in Cambodian, SOAS; 1987–1988 Senior Lecturer in Cambodian, SOAS; 1985–1988 Head of the Department of South East Asia and the Islands, SOAS.

3. Khmer language, literature, history, epigraphy.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects (see, Huffman 1993); books: Introduction to Cambodian, 1974; A Concise Cambodian–English Dictionary, 1974; Reamker (Ramakerti): the Cambodian Version of the Ramayana, 1986; Cambodian Linguistics, Literature and History. Collected Articles, 1993; The Traditional Literature of Cambodia: A Preliminary Guide, 1996.

5. Smyth 1993, Huffman 1993, Handbook 1999:62.

Padmanabh S. Jaini (?–)

1. MA University of Bombay; Ph.D Buddhist Literature, SOAS.

2. 1952–1955 Lecturer in Pali and Buddhism, Banaras Hindu University; 1956–1969 Lecturer in Pali and Buddhism, SOAS; 1969–1972 Lecturer in the University of Michigan; 1972– Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of California (Berkeley).

3. Buddhism, Jainism, Pali language and literature.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects; books: The Jaina Path of Purification, 1979; Apocryphal Birth-Stories: Pannasa Jataka, 1986; Lokaneyyapakarana, 1986; Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women, 1991; Collected Papers on Jaina Studies, 2000.

5. Internet page of the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California (Berkeley).

E.H. Johnston (1885–1942)

1. BA Mathematics; BA History, New College, Oxford; Boden Sanskrit Scholarship, D.Litt., Oxford University.

2. 1909–1924 Civil service in India (Bengal, Bihar); 1924–1942 Retired scholar engaged in Sanskrit and Buddhist Studies; 1935 Member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society.

3. Sanskrit studies, Buddhism in India and Tibet.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects; publications of Sanskrit texts (see Thomas 1942).

5. Thomas 1942.

R. Jones (1926–)

1. BA, SOAS; Postgraduate studies (Indonesian language, Anthropology), University of Leiden; Ph.D, SOAS, University of London.

2. 1948–1958 Civil service in Malaya, Military service; 1961–1965 Lecturer in Malay, University of Sydney; 1965–1967 Research work for Ph.D thesis, University of Leiden; 1967–1984 Lecturer in Indonesian, SOAS; 1984– Senior Research Fellow, SOAS.

3. Malay language, literature; Islam in Indonesia; Malay manuscripts, history of papermaking; Chinese loan-words in Indonesian.

4. Articles on the above-mentioned subjects (see Kratz 1996:264–5, 276, 282–3); books: Hikayat Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham, 1985; Chinese Names...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• RELIGION
• HISTORY, HISTORICAL SOURCES
• LITERATURE AND ARTS
• HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
• INDEX
• APPENDIX 1 Briefly about the authors
• APPENDIX 2 Articles and notes on South East Asia published in BSOAS in 1918–1990