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Summary
Summary
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 many 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 prespectives 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.
Author Notes
Jan van der Putten is Assistant Professor at the Department of Malay Studies of the National University of Singapore, where he teaches Malay Literature. His research interests lie in traditional Malay writing especially writings, that originate from Riau. He also researches popular forms of expression, such as popular magazines, comics and films. He has published extensively on these topics.
Mary Kilcline Cody is completing her history dissertation Tropical Gothic: The Proudlock Murder Trial, British Malaya, 1911, at the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Her research interests include law and colonial society in Southeast Asia, patent medicine, the writing of William Somerset Maugham and history and fiction.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgements | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
Significant Time, Myths and Power in the Javanese Calendar | p. 1 |
How Surakarta was Founded on the Wrong Day | p. 17 |
Shining Stones: The King and the Ascetic in Indonesia | p. 22 |
An Excursion to Java's Get-Rich-Quick Tree | p. 33 |
Chasing the Dragon: An Early Expedition to Komodo Island | p. 41 |
Lord Hunting Tiger and Malay Learning in Japan Before the War | p. 54 |
Martyr to Science or Gaseous Windbag of Colossal Ignorance? | p. 66 |
A Paler Shade of White | p. 82 |
The Perils of Propaganda | p. 97 |
Wanted | p. 114 |
In Search of Fatimah | p. 129 |
When is a Jawi Jawi? A Short Note on Pieter Sourij's "Maldin" and his Minang Student "Sayf al-Rijal" | p. 139 |
Reflections on the Mysticism of Shams al-Din al-Samatra'i (1550?-1630) | p. 148 |
A Life Unrecognised: Muhammad Yusuf Ahmad | p. 164 |
Fr Pécot and the Earliest Catholic Imprints in Malay | p. 177 |
Some Light on Ahmad al-Fatani's Nur al-mubin ("The Clear Light") | p. 186 |
Ritual Recitation of Abdul Qadir's karamat: A Social History | p. 198 |
Singing the Text: On-Air Textual Interpretation in Bali | p. 210 |
Faust does Nusantara | p. 227 |
Finding Love in Hikayat Raja Kulawandu | p. 241 |
The Thread of Eroticism in Faridah Hanom, An Early Malay Novel | p. 257 |
Pedal Power in Southeast Asia | p. 268 |
The Lament of an Old Man: Sayyid 'Uthman (1822-1914) of Batavia on Cars | p. 283 |
Some Thoughts on Islamic Manuscripts from the Southern Philippines and the Jawi Tradition | p. 290 |
To Rescue a Beached Whale: The Translation of Matthes' Bugis Dictionary | p. 304 |
Was the Mousedeer Peranakan? In Search of Chinese Islamic Influences on Malay Manuscript Art | p. 319 |
Gardens of Knowledge: From Bustan to Taman | p. 339 |
Bibliography | p. 357 |
Contributors | p. 384 |
Index | p. 391 |