RAS-1983 — Page 6

CONTENTS

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PRESIDENT'S REPORT viii

TREASURER'S REPORT xv

LIBRARIAN'S REPORT xvii

OBITUARY xviii

ARTICLES:

Field Trip to Maryknoll House, Stanley by the Hong Kong Royal Asiatic Society Dec. 8, 1984 - M. MCKIERNAN 1

So Kon Po: Notes for the Visit Made by Member of the Society, 26th November 1983 — J. W. HAYES 7

Notes on the So Kon Po Valley and Village - REVD. CARL T. SMITH 12

Disfunction of Chinese Rural Society - RAMON H. MYERS 18

The Self-Perception of Buddhist Monks in Hong Kong Today - BARTHOLOMEW P. M. TSUI 23

Notes on Some Chinese Customs in the New Territories - B. D. WILSON 41

Of Hongs and Tongs and All That Jazz: A Note on Lexical Borrowing from Chinese in English with Special Reference to H.K. - MIMI CHAN 62

The Islands Around Hong Kong — W. SCHOFIELD 91

Secular Non-Gentry Leadership of Temple and Shrine Organisations in Urban British H. K. - J. W. HAYES 113

Business Ideology of Chinese Industrialists in Hong Kong - WONG SIU-LUN 137

Variation Technique in the Formal Structure of the Music of Taoist Jiao-Shi in Hong Kong - PEN-YEH TSAO 172

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