Asian Studies Advocacy
Academic interests were evenly divided between Bertram's Clough-Arnold project and his own strong wish to promote Asian studies at Victoria. In earlier years after returning to New Zealand he had run evening classes on China, Japan and Far Eastern affairs. In 1960 he accepted a Carnegie travel grant to prepare an extended report on both Eng. Lit. and Oriental Studies as taught in North American universities. He was however unsuccessful; when the university did make an appointment in Asian Studies, the university chose an expert in the politics of Indonesia who had no interest in any major Oriental language.
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