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Research
UNIVERSITY
THE University of Hong Kong continued its programmes of research in 1960.
Present projects in the Department of History include work on the history of Hong Kong and the New Territories; problems of communication between the English East India Company and Chinese officials at Canton in the early nineteenth century; British policy in China, 1894-1902; the history of Chinese relations with Yunnan during the T'ang period and the ethnic problems connected with the state of Nanchao; and the history of south- east Asia since 1870.
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In the Department of Education, efforts are continuing to establish educational research on a regional basis under a directive organization with a co-ordinated programme and funds of its own. Meanwhile the variety of projects going forward includes a two- year study of the development of Chinese personality, sponsored by the New York Society of Human Ecology; a study of generality of meaning systems connected with a cross-cultural project con- ducted by the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois; inquiries in the field of comparative education; and analyses of educational development in mainland China. A study of American financial educational programmes in the Colony is provoking considerations of major policy, some of which have been published.
Research in the Department of Economics and Political Science has been concentrated in four fields: (1) HONG KONG. An Economic Survey of Hong Kong's Fishing Industry was published by FAO. Other articles published or presented at conferences include studies of Hong Kong's national income 1947-60; the economics of cross- harbour transportation; trade between Italy and Hong Kong, and the USA and Hong Kong; private enterprise and public owner- ship; Government in-service training; population growth; and