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Major speech on Asia-literacy education

On 25 August 2009, Professor Anthony Milner, Basham Professor of Asian History in the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University, gave the keynote speech at the Asia Educational Foundation National Forum, Leading 21st Century Schools, in Canberra.
If we are to promote the cause of Asia literacy in Australian education it matters [...]

Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World

Review of Jan van der Putten and Mary Kilcline Cody (eds.), Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World. National University of Singapore Press, 2008. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Xxiii + 396pp. Available from Asia Bookroom (www.asiabookroom.com) for AU$48
An invitation went out to write something scholarly and quirky in honour of Ian Proudfoot’s contributions to [...]

recently published: Globalising the Prehistory of Japan

Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan: Language, genes and civilisation
Ann Kumar, Australian National University
This iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society and identity.
The social changes that took place in Japan in the time-period when the Jomon culture was replaced by the Yayoi [...]