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wage policy problems. (2) CHINA. Studies have been made of the food problem in mainland China, urban communes, trends in economic policy, social accounting, capital formation, the ‘rightist' movement, conflict in Tibet, and army-party relations; these and a study of the educational developments in Taiwan have all been prepared for Volume IV of Contemporary China, an annual departmental publication. A study of rural Taiwan (1952-8) was completed in collaboration with the National Taiwan University and the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction. Other research has been made into the balance of payments, steel industry, and rice exports of mainland China; the organization of political power; and the shaping of a nation-state in China under Communism. (3) Far East. A symposium on Central Banking in South and East Asia was published by the Hong Kong University Press; an economic survey of the fishing industry in Thana District, Bombay State, was edited for publication by FAO; and a study of the planning of economic development of fisheries in the ECAFE region was prepared at the invitation of FAO. Members of the department participated in various international conferences, and preparatory work has been undertaken for the symposium on Economic and Social Problems of the Far East to be held in September 1961 as part of the University's Golden Jubilee Congress. (4) ACCOUNTING THEORY. Studies have begun in this field and some results have been published in various journals.
Work continues in the Department of Modern Languages on contact vernaculars of south-east Asia, with special reference to the Portuguese dialects of Hong Kong and Macau, and a number of papers have been published on this subject.
In the Department of Philosophy research goes on into the psychological problems created by bilingualism and experiments on the perception of complex forms in young Chinese children are in progress. Investigation is still being made of the intellectual and physical capabilities of the male undergraduate, in collabora- tion with the University Health Officer, the Department of Anatomy, and the Director of Physical Education.
Research in the Department of Mathematics has been mainly on asymptotic approximation, projectively flat spaces with re- current curvature, construction of metrisable Lie algebras from a given anti-symmetic tensor of the third order, and an algebraic