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journals. The Department has also collaborated in the preparation of a history of Portuguese teaching in Hong Kong.
In the Department of English, phonetic and semantic studies have continued, and a translation of 'Emily Bronte: esperance spirituelle et creation poetique' by Jacques Blondel is in progress. Other work has included an edition of The Friend by S. T. Coleridge, an Anthology of Elizabethan Poetry, partly for use by first-year University students, and work on 'English Usage'. Two other anthologies were being made: one of less familiar English sonnets, the other of rare lyrics of the 17th century.
The Department of Philosophy has continued research into the psychological problems created by bilingualism. Experiments on the perception of complex forms in young Chinese children have been initiated, and the Chinese reading test has been finalized.
Investigation of the intellectual and physical capabilities of the male undergraduate population has been continued in conjunction by the University Health Officer, the Departments of Anatomy and Philosophy, and the Director of Physical Education.
Members of the Department of Chinese and of the Institute of Oriental Studies have continued their research work in various directions; some has already been published and some is still in the press. Publications include Buddhist Rock Sculptures of the T'ang Dynasty, Hong Kong and its External Communications before 1842, A New Study of P'u Shou-k'eng (an Arabian merchant in the Sung Dynasty), and Oracle Bone Diviners of the Shang-Yin Period. Articles on Overseas Collections of Oracle Bones; on a Bronze Vessel of the Shang Dynasty; on a collection of Yuan and Ming Plays preserved in a library in Spain; on differences between Ming Dynasty blue-and-white porcelain of the Yung-10 and Hsuan-te periods, will appear in Volume IV of the Journal of Oriental Studies. In the Institute of Oriental Studies, work has continued on a general history of the Tai-P'ing T’ien-kuo, a book on the actor Mei Lan Fang has been published, and two volumes of Chronological Tables of Chinese History are about to come off the press.
In the Department of Extra-Mural Studies there has been research into the rise of new literatures in English, French, and Spanish in the Afro-Caribbean area, and several publications in