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part of the 20th-Century; modern Sino-Japanese relations; modern Chinese intellectual history; and aspects of South-East Asian history since 1870.
The Department of Modern Languages carried out research and published books and articles in two main fields-dialectology and the modern French and European novel. In the Department of Philosophy, research continued on the foundations of the social sciences and on problems of bi-lingualism. Studies on the sociology of the cinema and on the foundations of psychology were conducted, as were comparative studies in the psychology of personality.
The Institute of Modern Asian Studies, established in 1960 to serve as a focus and centre of information for all work in the univer- sity in this field, continued its research on China's economic de- velopment with particular emphasis on external trade, foreign debt and economic aid to developing countries. In addition to Con- temporary China, the Institute brought out a quarterly journal, The China Mainland Review, which contains, in part, research findings of its staff members.
In the Faculty of Science, a survey of parasites on economic plants was begun in the Department of Botany, prior to research on the host-parasite relationships of plant diseases in the Colony. Research work in the Department of Chemistry included the chemistry of local plants, some aspects of textile chemistry, mech- anism studies in inorganic and organic chemistry, electro-chemistry, and X-ray structure determination. Nuclear chemistry facilities have also been set up.
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The Department of Physics extended its programme of research on the ionosphere by the measurement of the Faraday rotation of signals from earth satellites. An ionosonde station was built on the summit of Mount Davis and was in continuous operation from June. Research in the Department of Mathematics continued on the national income of Hong Kong and members of the staff assisted the government's special committee on higher education in its various research projects.
The Department of Zoology continued research along several lines including the form and function of endocrine glands of Hong Kong vertebrates; the dispersal, distribution, and evolution of insect species of Pacific oceanic islands; the form and function of