Alexander David Gordon – always Alec to his colleagues – joined the Journal of Contemporary Asia (JCA) Editorial Board with Issue 1 in 1981. He stayed on the Board until his passing on August 23, 2019. Alec had been a featured speaker at a very successful “Revisiting Malaysia’s Colonial Economy” conference in Kuala Lumpur on July 15, 2019, returning to his home in Cha-Am, Thailand. Sadly, he suffered a stroke soon after his return and entered hospital where he passed away in Bangkok, aged 88. His wife and research partner Napat and daughter Pailin were with him. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1931, Alec completed his National Service with the Royal Air Force in Egypt (1950–1952) before taking his degree at the University of Glasgow, graduating in 1960. For the next 12 years, he worked mainly as an industrial economist in London with the Commonwealth Committee, Economist Intelligence Unit, ICI and Unilever. He returned to study in 1969, at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), where he came to know one of JCA’s founding editors, Malcolm Caldwell. Much later, he wrote a heartfelt appreciation of Malcom for JCA (Gordon 2009). In that article he recalled long evening discussions on all manner of topics with Malcolm at The Sultan, a working-class pub in Lewisham, now demolished. After completing his MA studies at SOAS, from 1970 to 1973, Alec held a Social Science Research Council Fellowship at SOAS before joining the Department of Economics at the University of Papua New Guinea from 1974 to 1979, enjoying the heady days of decolonisation and new nationhood. He then taught and researched at various universities before joining the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) and, later, that university’s Institute of Asian Studies. Alec stayed with Chulalongkorn, teaching and researching, from 1984 to 2009. Photo credit: Napat and Pailin Gordon. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ASIA 2020, VOL. 50, NO. 1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2019.1675124

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亚历克·戈登 (1931–2019)

亚历山大大卫戈登——他的同事总是亚历克——于 1981 年加入《当代亚洲杂志》(JCA) 编辑委员会第 1 期。他一直在董事会任职，直到 2019 年 8 月 23 日去世。亚历克曾是一个非常重要的演讲者。 2019 年 7 月 15 日在吉隆坡成功举办“重温马来西亚的殖民经济”会议，返回他在泰国七岩的家中。可悲的是，他返回后不久就中风，在曼谷去世，享年 88 岁。他的妻子和研究伙伴 Napat 和女儿 Pailin 与他同在。亚历克于 1931 年出生于苏格兰格拉斯哥，在埃及皇家空军完成了他的国民服役（1950-1952 年），然后在格拉斯哥大学获得学位，并于 1960 年毕业。在接下来的 12 年里，他主要在伦敦担任英联邦委员会、经济学人智库、ICI 和联合利华的工业经济学家。1969 年，他回到东方和非洲研究学院 (SOAS) 学习，在那里他认识了 JCA 的创始编辑之一马尔科姆·考德威尔 (Malcolm Caldwell)。很久以后，他为 JCA 写了一篇对 Malcom 的衷心感谢（Gordon 2009）。在那篇文章中，他回忆起与马尔科姆在刘易舍姆的一家工人阶级酒吧 The Sultan 就各种话题进行的长时间讨论，该酒吧现已被拆除。1970 年至 1973 年在 SOAS 完成硕士学位后，Alec 在 SOAS 担任社会科学研究委员会奖学金，然后于 1974 年至 1979 年加入巴布亚新几内亚大学经济系，享受非殖民化和新国家的令人兴奋的日子. 在加入朱拉隆功大学社会研究所 (CUSRI) 以及后来的该大学亚洲研究所之前，他曾在多所大学任教和研究。从 1984 年到 2009 年，亚历克一直在朱拉隆功教书和研究。照片来源：Napat 和 Pailin Gordon。2020 年亚洲当代杂志，第一卷 50，没有。1, 1–4 https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2019.1675124