Curriculum Vitae
Professor David Leopold HolmProfessor of Chinese Professional AddressAsia Institute Tel: +61 3 8344 5990 |
Degrees, Qualifications
| 1980 | DPhil. University of Oxford |
| 1972 | MPhil, University of Glasgow |
| 1968 | MA Hons, University of Glasgow |
Grants, Awards, Prizes
- ‘The Old Zhuang Script: a Vernacular Character Script from Southern China’, ARC Discovery grant (2004-2006)
- ‘Zhuang Ritual Texts: Spirit Mediumship and Taoism in Southern China’, research grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (2002-2005)
- ‘Theatre and Ritual among the Zhuang of Southwest China: Traditional Culture in a Modernising Context’, Large ARC Grant (1994-1996)
- ‘Ritual and Theatre in China’, research grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (1994-1997)
Recent Committees, Memberships
- Chinese Studies Association of Australia (1989-present)
- President, Chinese Studies Association of Australia (1993-1995)
- Chairperson, Chinese K-12 Syllabus Committee, New South Wales Board of Studies (1990-1995)
Recent Committees, Memberships
- Professorial Fellow, Center for Chinese Folk Culture Research, Beijing Normal University (1993-present)
- Member, Academic Board, Zhuang Studies Research Centre, Guangxi Nationalities University (2004-present)
- Member of Council, the Margaret Lyttle Memorial School (Preshil) (2004-2005)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Min-su ch’ü-i [Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore] (1992-present)
- Member of the Editorial Board, Tai Culture: International Review of Tai Studies (2002-present)
- Member of the Editorial Board of the monograph series Min-su ch’ü-i ts’ung-shu [Studies in Ritual, Theatre and Folklore] (1992-present)
- Chairperson, Chinese K-12 Syllabus Committee, New South Wales Board of Studies (1990-1995)
- President, Chinese Studies Association of Australia (1993-1995)
Career, Principal Offices, Principal Positions Held
| 1995-present | Professor of Chinese, The University of Melbourne |
| 1999-2000 | Visiting Professor, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan |
| 1996-1997 | Head, Department of Japanese and Chinese, The University of Melbourne |
| 1989-1995 | Professor of Chinese and Head, Chinese Section, School of Modern Languages, Macquarie University |
| 1987-1989 | Senior Lecturer in Chinese Anthropology and Chinese, Department of East Asian Studies, The University of Melbourne |
| 1985-1987 | Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Macquarie University |
| 1980-1985 | Lecturer in Chinese, Macquarie University |
| 1974-1976 | Research Fellow, Contemporary China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, London |
Research Interests
- Zhuang and Bouyei language and literature
- Ethnography of the Tai-speaking peoples of Southwest China
- Ritual and performance culture in Shaanxi province
- Taoism and spirit mediumship
- Decipherment of the Old Zhuang Script
Principal Publications
Sole-authored book
- Art and Ideology in Revolutionary China, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991
- Killing a Buffalo for the Ancestors: A Zhuang Cosmological Text from Southwest China, DeKalb: Southeast Asian Studies Center, Northern Illinois University, 2003
- Recalling Lost Souls: the Baeu Rodo Scriptures, Tai Cosmogonic Texts from Guangxi in Southern China, Bangkok: White Lotus Publishing Company, 2004
Recent articles
- ‘The Exemplar of Filial Piety and the End of the Ape-Men: Dong Yong in Guangxi and Guizhou Religious Performance’, T’oung Pao XC (September 2004), 32-64
- ‘The Death of Tiaoxi (the ‘Leaping Play’): Ritual Theatre in the Northwest of China’, Modern Asian Studies 37:4 (October 2003), 863-884
- ‘“Duma tuchangâ€: Zhuangzu sangli zhong ma de naoju’ “ 度马土唱 â€: 壮æ—丧礼ä¸çš„闹剧 [‘The Horse of Salvation’: a Burlesque performed in Zhuang Funerals] , in Pan Qixu æ½˜å…¶æ— and Qin Naichang 覃乃昌 , eds., Shoujie guoji Zhuangxue hui lunwenji 首届国际壮å¦ä¼šè®ºæ–‡é›† [Papers from the First International Conference on Zhuang Studies] , Nanning: Guangxi minzu chubanshe, 2004, pp. 758-773