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1.Summary 

Full name: David Leopold Holm

Date of birth: 4 September 1946

Citizenship: U.S., Australian

Contact address:    201 Xiuming Road Section 1, 2nd Floor,

Wenshan District

Taipei, TAIWAN 116

Email: dvdholm37@gmail.com

2. Education:

- 1951-1964: Davis public schools, Davis, California

- 1962: Armidale High School, Armidale, N.S.W.

- 1963-1964: University of California, Davis

- 1964-1966: Reed College, Portland, Oregon

- 1966-1968: University of Glasgow

- 1968-1971: University of Glasgow

- 1971-1979: Oxford University

3. Degrees held: 

- M.A. Hons in Classics, University of Glasgow, 1968

- M.Phil. in Chinese Studies, University of Glasgow, 1972

- D.Phil. in Chinese, Oxford University, 1980

4. Academic career:

- 1973-1974: Bibliographer, Contemporary China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

- 1974-1977: Research Fellow, Contemporary China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

- 1980-1984: Lecturer in Chinese, School of Modern Languages, Macquarie University, Sydney

- 1985-1987: Senior Lecturer in Chinese, School of Modern Languages, Macquarie University, Sydney

- 1987-1989: Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Chinese Anthropology, University of Melbourne

- 1989-1995: Professor of Chinese, Macquarie University, Sydney

- 1995-2010: Professor of Chinese, The University of Melbourne

- 1999-2000: Visiting Professor, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

- 2006-2007: Research Associate, RCLT, La Trobe University

- 2008: Visiting Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taipei

- 2008: Visiting Scholar, Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica

- 2009: Research Professor, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 

- 2010-2017: Professor, Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

- 2013-2017: Director, International Doctoral Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

- 2017-2018: Adjunct Professor, Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

- 2018-present: Professor Emeritus, Department of Ethnology, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

5. Community and Professional Service:

Board member, Chinese Studies Association of Australia, 1990-1996

President, Chinese Studies Association of Australia, 1993-1995

President, Australian Translators and Interpreters Association, Sydney, 1985

Member, editorial board, Modern Chinese Literature, 1984-1993

Member, editorial board, Minsu quyi [Folklore and Performance], 1992-present

Member, editorial board, Minsu quyi congshu [Studies on Folklore, Theatre and Ritual], 1992-present

Member, editorial board, Tai Culture, 2002-present

Chairman, Chinese Syllabus Committee (K-12), New South Wales Board of Studies, 1990-1995

Member, Board of Management, Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia, 1992-1994

Director, Chinese Curriculum Project, National Asian Languages Project, 1990-1995

Fellow, Research Institute for Chinese Folk Culture, Beijing Normal University, 1994-present

Member, Review Panel, ARC Review of the Key Centre for Asian Languages and Studies, Griffith and Queensland Universities, June 1994

Member, Academic Board, Zhuang Studies Research Centre, Guangxi University for Nationalities, 2003-present

Member of Council, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School (Preshil), 2004-2008

Chair of Council, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School (Preshil), 2006-2007

Convenor, Melbourne China Studies Group, 2005-2006

Member, VCE Chinese Language and Culture Reference Group, Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, Victorian Department of Education, 2006

Academic Director, The Confucius Institute at Melbourne, 2005-2008

Member, editorial board, Ethnologica, 2010 to present

Member, editorial board, Linguistics ofthe Tibeto-Burman Area, 2015 to present

Editor-in-chief, Zhuang Traditional Texts series, Brill Publishing Company, 2014 to present.

6. Major Grants Received:

'Meishan jiao and Ritual Theatre among the Zhuang in Guangxi, China', ARC Large Grant, 1993-1995

'Ritual Theatre in China', Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Grant, 1994-1997

'The Old Zhuang Script: a Vernacular Character Script from South China', ARC Discovery Grant, 2004-2006

'Spirit Mediumship and Taoism in South China', Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Research Grant, 2003-2006

'Cultural Approaches to Chinese Language Pedagogy', ARC Linkage Grant with Professor Joe Lo Bianco and Dr. Trevor Hay, 2010

'Writing Systems and Writing Cultures in Southwest China', Resident Research Fellowship, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2009-2010

Vernacular Character Writing Systems of the Tai-speaking Peoples of Southwest China and Northern Vietnam, National Science Council, Taiwan, 2012-2013 (extended 2013-2014)

Vernacular Character Writing Systems of the Tai-speaking Peoples of Southwest China and Northern Vietnam (2), National Science Council, Taiwan, 2014-2015

Vernacular Character Writing Systems of the Tai-speaking Peoples of Southwest China and Northern Vietnam (3), National Science Council, Taiwan, 2015-2016

華南及越南北部侗台語族的傳統方塊字文字系統(III)

104-2410-H-004 -162-

Mapping the Tay Vernacular Character Script of Northern Vietnam

越南北部袋族土俗方块文字地图集

Monograph Writing Project, National Science and Technology Council, Taiwan, 2024-2026

NSTC 113-2410-H-004-093-MY2

7. Published Work:

1 A Bibliography of Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals in European Libraries, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975

2 'Ma Ke, Man and Wife Learn to Read/ one-act Yangge play (1945)', in J.Berninghausen and T. Huters, eds., Revolutionary Literature in China: an Anthology, White Plains, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1976, pp.71-80

3 'Hua Guofeng and the Village Drama Movement in the Northwest Shanxi Base Area, 1943-1945', The China Quarterly, 84 (Dec 1980), 669–93

4 'National Form and the Popularisation of Literature in Yenan', in la Fondation Singer-Polignac, ed., La littérature chinoise au temps de la guerre de résistance contre le Japon (de 1937 à 1945), Limoges: l'Imprimérie Bontemps, 1982, pp. 215-235

5 'The Difficulty of Walking on Two Legs', Index on Censorship 12:2 (Feb 1983), 34-37 (special issue on music censorship)

6 'Folk Art as Propaganda: the Yangge Movement in Yan'an', in Bonnie S. McDougall, ed., Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984, pp. 3-35

7 'Lu Xun during the War Years: the Making of a Chinese Gorky', in Leo Ou-fan Lee, ed., Lu Xun and His Legacy, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985, pp.153–179

8 'Local Color in Chinese Popular Literature', Modern Chinese Literature 2:1 (Spring 1986), 7-20

9 'Thatcherism in China and its Social Effects', The Australian Quarterly, Spring 1989 (61:3), 370-378

10 Art and Ideology in Revolutionary China, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991

11 'The Strange Case of Liu Zhidan', in The Australian Journal ofChinese Affairs 27 (Jan 1992), 77–96

12 'The Strange Case of Liu Zhidan', in Jonathan Unger, ed., Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993, pp.104–123

13 'Ritual and Ritual Theatre in Liuzhou’, Minsu quyi [Folklore and Performance] 84 (July 1993), 225-293

14 'The Labyrinth of Lanterns: Taoism and Popular Religion in Northwest China', in Ruth Lin Chu, ed., Proceedings ofthe International Conference on Popular Beliefs and Chinese Culture, Taipei: Center for Chinese Studies, 1994, pp.797-852

15 'Ritual Theatre in China', in A.M. Gibbs, ed., Masks of Time: Drama and its Contexts, Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, October 1994, pp.197-216

16 'The Redemption of Vows in Shanglin', Minsu quyi 92 (Nov 1994), 853-909

17 'The Tao among the Zhuang: Imported and Indigenous Aspects of Zhuang Ritual', Minsu quyi 117 (Jan 1999), 371–88

18 D. Holm 贺大卫, Zhuangzu yishiju yanjiu: guanyu zuji shehui de fangfalun壮族仪式剧研究:关于族际社会的方法论 [Ritual theatre among the Zhuang: on the methodology of research on an interethnic society], Dongfang congkan东方丛刊 [Eastern Miscellany], Guilin: Guangxi shifan daxue chubanshe, 2000, pp. 22-36.

19 'Unnatural Death and its Ritual Treatment among the Zhuang and Bouyei', Minsu quyi 130 (Jan 2001), 125-42

20 'The Ancient Song of Doengving: a Zhuang Funeral Text from Donglan, Guangxi', Monumenta Serica XLIX (2001), 71–140

21 'Aspects of Funerals among the Zhuang: the Horse Play', in Ch'iu-kuei Wang, Ying-chang Chuang, and Chung-min Chen, eds., Proceedings of the International Conference on Society, Ethnicity and Cultural Performance, Taipei: Center for Chinese Studies, 2001, pp.215-260

22 'A Review of the Celebration of the Bodhisattva Ritual of the Vernacular Priests of the Zou Lineage in Poji Township, Zhenxiong County, Zhaotong Region, Yunnan by Guo Sijiu and Wang Yong', in Daniel L. Overmyer, ed., Ethnography in China Today: a Critical Assessment of Methods and Results, Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 2002, 109-116

23 'A Review of the Yangxi of Guizhou: The Theatrical Troupe of the Deng Lineage in Dashang Village, Limu Township, Luodian County by Huangfu Chongqing', in Daniel L. Overmyer, ed., Ethnography in China Today: a Critical Assessment of Methods and Results, Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 2002, 117-128

24 'A Review of the Celebration of the Bodhisattva Ritual of the Han Chinese in Poji Township, Zhenxiong County, Yunnan by Ma Chaokai', in Daniel L. Overmyer, ed., Ethnography in China Today: a Critical Assessment of Methods and Results, Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 2002, 129-132

25 'A Review of Pleasing the Nuo Gods in Cengong County, Guizhou', in Daniel L. Overmyer, ed., Ethnography in China Today: a Critical Assessment of Methods and Results, Taipei: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., 2002, 171-180

26'The Death of Tiaoxi (the 'Leaping Play'): Ritual Theatre in the Northwest of China', Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge), 37:4 (Oct 2003), 863-884

27 Killing a Buffalo for the Ancestors:A Zhuang Cosmological Textfrom Southwest China, DeKalb: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University, 2003

28 Recalling Lost Souls: The Baeu Rodo Scriptures, Tai Cosmogonic Texts from Guangxi in Southern China, Bangkok: White Lotus Co., 2004

29 Duma tuchang: Zhuangzu sangli zhong ma de naoju'“度马土唱”:壮族丧礼中的闹剧 [The Horse of Salvation: a burlesque performed during funerals among the Zhuang], in Pan Qixu 潘其旭 and Qin Naichang 覃乃昌, eds., Shoujie guoji Zhuangxue hui lunwenji 首届国际壮学会论文集[Proceedings of the First International Conference on Zhuang Studies], Nanning: Guangxi minzu chubanshe, 2004, pp. 758-773

30 'The Exemplar of Filial Piety and the End of the Ape-Men: Dong Yong in Guangxi and Guizhou Ritual Performance', T'oung-pao XC (Sept 2004), 32-64

31 (co-authored with Meng Yuanyao 蒙元耀) Zhuangyu daozuo cihui ji qi wenhua neihan shixi'壮语稻作词汇及其文化内涵试析[A semantic analysis of the vocabulary in Zhuang pertaining to rice cultivation and its cultural ramifications], Guangxi minzu yanjiu 广西民族研究 [Research on Guangxi Ethnic Groups], 2004, 3, 60-66

32 'Taoism among China's Minority Nationalities', Routledge Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture, ed. Edward L. Davis, London: Routledge, 2005, 136-7

33 'The Old Zhuang Script', in Anthony V.N. Diller, Jerold A. Edmondson, and Yongxian Luo, eds., The Tai-Kadai Languages, London: Routledge, 2008, 415-428

34 Donglan Zhuangzu de "Zao tiandijing”東蘭壯族的造天地經 [The Scripture on the Creation of Heaven and Earth among the Donglan Zhuang], Baiyue luncong 百越論叢 2008 no.1,90-100

35 Mobility among the Tai Peoples of South China, in Huang Ying-kuei 黃應貴, ed.-in-chief, Kongjian yu wenhua changyu: Kongjian zhi yixiang, shijian yu shehui de shengchan 空間與文化場域:空間之意象,實踐與社會的生產 Space and Cultural Fields: Spatial Images, Practices and Social Production, Taipei: Center for Chinese Studies, 2009, pp. 11–59

36 'A Typology of Readings of Chinese Characters in Traditional Zhuang Manuscripts', Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 38(2) (2009):245-292

37 David Holm, ed., Regionalism and Globalism in Chinese Culinary Culture, Taipei: Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture, 2009

38 'Some Variant Characters in a Traditional Zhuang Manuscript: a New Angle on the Chinese Script', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquity, 78 (2006), 125-172 (actual publication date October 2010) 

39 'Evidence for Historical Sound Change in Traditional Zhuang Texts', Journal of Language and Linguistics (Thammasat University), 28:2 (January-June 2010), 1-12

40 'Linguistic Diversity along the China-Vietnam Border', Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 33.2 (October 2010), 1–63

41 Chuantong fangkuai Zhuangzi de quyuxing'傳統方塊壯字的區域性 [Regional variation in the traditional Zhuang character script], Guangxi minzu daxue xuebao 廣西民族大學學報, 2011 No.2, 27-33

42 Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script: a Vernacular Writing System from Southern China, Leiden: Brill, Handbuch der Orientalistik series, 2013

43 (trans. Mo Haiwen 莫海文), ‘Dongnanya, Guangxi xibu de mogong yu tusi zhengquan de guanxi' 東南亞、廣西西部的麼公與土司政權的關係 [Mogong and Native Chieftaincy in Southeast Asia and Western Guangxi], Baise xueyuan xuebao 百色學院學報, 2013 no.2, 32-40.

44 (with Meng Yuanyao ), Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King, An Epic from Guangxi in Southern China, Zhuang Traditional Texts series No.1, Leiden: Brill, 2015

45 D. Holm, 'Dialect Variation within Traditional Zhuang Manuscripts', International Journal of Chinese Character Studies 1:2 (2015), 1-32. 

46 'Mogong and Chieftaincy in western Guangxi and Southeast Asia', Asian Ethnicity, Vol. 18 No.2 (March 2017), 173-189.

47 'Parallelism in the Hanvueng, a Zhuang Verse Epic from West-central Guangxi in Southern China', Oral Tradition, Special Issue on Parallelism, 2017, 373-406.

48 'A Layer of Old Chinese Readings in Traditional Zhuang Manuscripts’, Bulletin of the Museum for Far Eastern Antiquities, 79/80 (2018), 197-244.

49 "Crossing the Seas": the Shamanic Substratum Reconsidered', Sino-Platonic Papers 281, October 2018.

50 'Literate Shamanism: The Priests Called Then among the Tày in Guangxi and Northern Vietnam', Religions 2019, 10, 64, 1-22. doi:10.3390/rel10010064 

51 He Dawei 賀大衛 [David Holm], 'Suxie samanjiao: Guangxi ji Yuenan beibu Daizu yishi zhuanjia 'Then' jianshu'書寫薩滿教:廣西及越南北部布岱儀式專家「天」簡述 [Literate Shamanism: the priests called Then among the Tày in Guangxi and northern Vietnam], in Dangdai wu wenhua de duoyuan mianmao 當代巫文化的多元面貌 [The Many Faces of Contemporary Shamanic Cultures], ed. Hu Taili 胡台麗, Zhongyang yanjiuyuan Minzu yanjiusuo, Taipei, 2019, 523-564. ISBN 978-986-05-9951-0

52 'The Language Corridor Revisited: Observations on Historical Context and Evidence from Vernacular Scripts', Journal of Chinese Writing Systems, 2020, 4:2 (June) pp. 71-86. DOI: 10.1177/2513850219919810斑

53 'The Tày and Zhuang Vernacular Scripts: Preliminary Comparisons’, Journal of Chinese Writing Systems, 2020, Special Issue on the Sinitic Scripts of Vietnam, 4: 3 (September 2020) 197-213. DOI: 10.1177/2513850219919810

54 'Hanvueng de pingxingshi: Guangxi zhong-xibu Zhuangzu shishi’《罕王》的平行式:广西中西部壮族史诗, Zhongguo minzu wenxue yanjiu 中国民族文學研究 38: 3 (2020), 112-133.

55 'The Lute of Golden Dragon Valley: Transcending Shamanism' in Shu-Li Wang, Michael Rowlands, and Yujie Zhu, eds., Heritage and Religion in East Asia, London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 148-164. ISBN 978-0-367-46812-5

56 'Revolutionary Theatre, Temple Fairs, and Traditional Culture in Wartime Shaan-Gan-Ning', Journal of Theatre Studies 戲劇研究 28: (July 2021) 141-192 DOI10.6257/JOTS.202107_(28).141

57 'Where did the Ngạn People Come From? Ritual Manuscripts among the Ngạn in Northern Vietnam', in Jörg B. Quenzer, ed., Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021, pp. 967–988. ISBN 978-3-11-074545-0

58 David Holm and Meng Yuanyao, The Brigands' Song: Serving in the Army of a Native Chieftain, A Traditional Song Text from Guangxi in Southern China, Zhuang Traditional Texts Series No.2, Leiden: Brill, 2021. isbn 978-90-04-44983-1 (hardback)

59 'Graphic Variation among Traditional Song Texts in the Zhuang-speaking Areas of West-Central Guangxi', Scripta: the International Journal of Writing Systems, Special Issue on Sound and Symbol in Sinography, vol. 12 (October 2021): 7-45.

60 'The Brigands' Song among the Ngan People in Northern Vietnam', Manusya: a Journal ofthe Humanities, 26 (2023), 1-26.

61 'Modes of Transmission in Tày, Nùng and Zhuang Manuscript Cultures', in D. Holm, ed., Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 40, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 301-329.

62 'Introduction', in D. Holm, ed., Vernacular Chinese-Character Manuscripts from East and Southeast Asia, Studies in Manuscript Cultures 40, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024, 1-14.

63 Daiyu tusu wenben zhong de zhuo shengmu duiying”岱语土俗文本中的浊声母对应 [Correspondences of Voiced Initials in Tày Vernacular Texts], Cishu yanjiu 辞书研究 Lexicographical Studies 2023, 6, 1-18.

64 'Telltale Signs: Reflections of Voiced Initials in the Vernacular Tày Script', in Phan Thi Huyen Trang et al., ed., Studies in Vietnamese historical linguistics: East and Southeast Asian contexts, Singapore: Springer, 2024, pp. 83–97. ISBN 978-981-97-4313-1

65 'Roads to the Sky: Indic ritual elements in the Vietnam-China borderlands and their maritime transmission', Religions special issue: 'Beyond the "Spice Routes": Indic and Sinitic Religions across the Asian Maritime Realm', 2024 (15,12), https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15121551 - 20 Dec 2024.

66 'Reflections of Voiced Initials in the Vernacular Character Text of the Tày Wedding Songs of Cao Bằng: Han Loanwords', Mark Alves, ed., Papers from the 33rd Meeting of the Southeast Asian Languages Society, JSEALS Special Publication No.13, University of Hawai'i Press, 2025, 198-211.