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12 Mar 2010 | |
| Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World | |
| Fri 5 Dec 2008 | |
| ~~ Invitation to the Launch of Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World ~~
Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World Jan van der Putten and Mary Kilcline Cody editors (Singapore: NUS Press, 2008) How did the Komodo dragon influence Hollywood? What do Wanted posters reveal about the Wild Wild East? Was the hapless explorer a martyr to science or a gaseous windbag? Why were colonial officials secret pill poppers? Did bicycles really promote Women’s Lib? Who went looking for love in all the wrong places? What do you do at the Get-Rich-Quick Tree? The answers to these and other questions are found in the witty, useful, informative, amusing and sometimes amazing stories that make up this collection. Inspired by the wry yet deeply scholarly perspective of Australian philologist Ian Proudfoot, the editors of Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World bring together a distinguished group of international scholars who look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theatre, art, Islamic manuscripts, erotic literature and many other topics, from wholly unexpected angles. The book demonstrates the spectacular diversity of scholarship on the Malay World, and shows that offbeat texts can produce fascinating new insights into the past. To find out how the book came to be, what varied topics it covers, and just what it is about Ian Proudfoot that inspires others: Join our compere, John Monfries, (Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU); the editors, Jan van der Putten (Malay Studies, National University of Singapore) and Mary Kilcline Cody (Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU); and our special guest, Robin Jeffrey, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, at the launch of the book that is “terrific fun to read”. If you can't join us on the night, but would like a copy with signatures of the editors and some of the contributors, just let us know before the event and we will be pleased to organise this for you. Date: Friday, 5 December 2008 Time: 6-8pm Venue: Asia Bookroom, Unit 2, 1-3 Lawry Place, Maquarie, ACT. 2614 RSVP: By Thursday December 4 to 62515191 or books@AsiaBookroom.com |
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