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CONTENTS

PRESIDENT'S REPORT

TREASURER's Report

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THE LIBRARY: and the Library Rules

TRANSACTIONS OF THE BRANCH :

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A Hong Kong Spirit-Medium Temple-JOHN T. MYERS Merchant Organisations in Late Imperial China: Patterns

of Change and Development-WELLINGTON K. K. CHAN 28 China's Economic Planning and Changing Geography—

CHIAO-MIN HSIEH

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Incident between the Hong Merchants and the Super- cargoes of the British East India Company in Canton, 1811—J. L. Cranmer-BYNG

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The Great Plague of Hong Kong-E. G. PRYOR Notes on Chiuchow Opera-Helga Werle Condition of the European Working Class in Nineteenth

Century Hong Kong-HENRY JAMES LETHBRIDGE The Employment of Foreign Military Talent: Chinese

Tradition and Late Ch'ing Practice-RICHARD J. SMITH 113 The Pacific Oyster Industry in Hong Kong-BRIAN MORTON

AND P. S. WONG Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong: the Story of the British

Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945- DONALD C. Bowie

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The Pottery Kilns at Wun Yiu, Tai Po-J. W. HAYES The Noon Day Gun-CARL T. SMITH -

The German Congregation in Hong Kong until 1914

CARL T. SMITH

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Boat People's Ceremonies observed from Island House,

Tai Po-D. AKERS JONES

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The RAS Photographic Survey in Hong Kong—

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Chief Marshal T'ien, patron of the stage, of musicians and

wrestlers-East and South East China-K. G. STEVENS 303 Chang Yu-tang and an old Hanging Scroll from Cheung

Chau-FRANCIS S. Y. SHAM AND JAMES Hayes - Hung Hom: an Early Industrial Village in Old British

Kowloon-Carl T. SMITH AND JAMES HAYES Typhoon Preparations in 1903

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