RELIGION, RESEARCH, THE ARTS, SPORT
Research-Hong Kong University
In the departments of the Faculty of Arts current research projects included studies in the history of Hong Kong and various aspects of Anglo-Chinese relations in the 19th century, the economic and sociolo- gical problems of contemporary China and Hong Kong, and a linguistic analysis of characteristic features of moral situations with reference to confusions in sub- jectivist theories of ethics.
In the Department of Education there was an investigation into the value of group methods in teacher training and studies in the reading ability of University students. Material has been collected concerning the value of Chinese as a suitable language for higher education in scientific and modern subjects, and case-work recording based on clinical experience with children in difficulties at school has begun.
At the Department of Chinese and in the Institute of Oriental Studies, individual research projects includ- ed the development of ancient Chinese characters, the history of political thought in China, and the T'ai-p'ing rebellion. Some of the results of these researches have been published in the first two issues of the Journal of Oriental Studies (Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 2), founded by the Institute of Oriental Studies.
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Research in the Department of Geography and Geology into the distribution, occurrence, and para- genesis of tungsten, lead, and clay minerals in the New Territories and archeological excavations Lamma and Lantao Islands has been continued. A land utilization map of Hong Kong and the New Territories on the scale of was published in October, 1954.
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