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        "title": "RAS-1984",
        "content_text": "164\n\nR.A. BOWLER, D.S.C. YANG AND A.J.E. SMITH\n\nto cover the period 1952 to 1977, but from about 1957 those beds closest to the Chinese coast were not re-leased. Since 1977 no leases have been granted and the present claim to \"ownership\" between China-based farmers and Hong Kong-based farmers divides the bay almost centrally. However, this simplistic division belies the close ties that still exist between oyster farmers.\n\nFigure 1 Location Plan\n\nNor Ni 2 Am\n\nScal\n\nPearl\n\nEstury\n\nShappe\n\nFuyurg Tungtian\n\nXiaochan\n\nPEARL ESTUARY\n\nDeep Bay.\n\nNei Ling Ting!\n\nPeople's Republic China (Guangdong Province)\n\nSouth China Sea\n\n+\n\nKildmavat\n\nA Duchan\n\nSHENZHEN CITY\n\nBaoan County\n\nXixiang\n\nManion\n\nHouhai\n\nShakou\n\nDEEP BAY\n\nDRUN UDISWM?\n\nBlack Polo\n\nSpecial Economic Zone\n\nShehe\n\nCucall\n\nI'm Shul Wai\n\nLaw Fau Shan\n\nNew Territories\n\nLantau Island\n\nLegend\n\nPRC Oyster beds\n\nHONG KONG Oyster beds",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "page_number": 190,
        "title": "RAS-1984",
        "content_text": "169\n\nfattening, and harvesting. The spawning and spat fall has been described by Mok, 1973. The minimum water temperature and highest salinity recorded in Deep Bay studies for minor spawning were 25.8°C and 19.5 g/kg respectively, and for mass spawning greater than or equal to 27.4°C and less than 14.9 g/kg. Spawning occurred from May to September with setting or spat collection between June and October, (Mok, 1973).\n\nThe views of Chinese oyster farmers were that water temperature from 21°C to 30°C and salinity 10 to 15 g/kg were necessary for spat fall, together with an appropriate wind direction. It is doubtful whether the wind has any direct significance, but the hydrography is influenced by wind and appropriate salinity levels and other factors referred to in basic literature on oysters are thus affected by wind vectors. Collection of spat was considered best in May and June for around 40 days only. Technicians from a research and culture station in Shekou considered the best period to be shorter, limiting it to about 20 days in May only. Cultch placed too early would be fouled with barnacles and other biota.\n\nThe cultch techniques are discussed in a later section. The typical growth period to achieve market size for Deep Bay oysters has been reported as 5 years, (Mok, 1974a). The life span of the oyster is about 7 years depending on growth rates, (Bromball, 1958). The Chinese oyster farmers consider 4 years as the average time to reach maturity and market size. The Hong Kong oyster farmers interviewed in 1984 indicated that 5 to 7 years is needed in Deep Bay depending on the area of culture. Figure 4 shows the relationship of length of growth period to area of culture suggested by the farmers. The farmers claim that the increased growth period is a result of increased pollution, but there is no direct evidence to support the claim. Neither are adequate hydrographical or chemical data available to examine whether some natural phenomenon is responsible. The Chinese farmers interviewed did not mention the problem.\n\nThe fattening process only takes a few months during the autumn prior to the main winter sales season. In the summer months the flesh is lean and watery as a result of the stress due to production of sperm and eggs but subsequently becomes thick and",
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        "series_id": 26,
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "page_number": 196,
        "title": "RAS-1984",
        "content_text": "175\n\nRafting is a common method of culturing oysters in many parts of the world, but has not yet become popular with Hong Kong farmers, despite the significant reduction in growth periods found in experiments conducted in Deep Bay and off Lantau Island (Bromhall, 1958; Mok, 1974b). There are currently some 200 rafts in Deep Bay off Shekou; 30 are operated by the Nantou oystermen and the remainder by the Shajing based oystermen. Two types of raft are used; one about 84 m2 in area, and the other 110 m2. The rafts are constructed from bamboo and expanded polystyrene floats and three rafts are moored by two anchors. Baskets, made from nylon or polypropylene rope with a 30 mm mesh, are attached to the rafts, such that the oysters are always above the sea bed and covered by about 1 m of water. Each basket holds 40 marketable size oysters, the equivalent of 1 kg of wet weight flesh. The advantages of the rafting system are the reduced growth period (about 21/2 years) and consequently enhanced productivity. Oysters are taken from the traditional cultches at about 11/2 years of age and placed in the baskets for growth and fattening over about a further year. The problem of oyster shells cutting through the basket ropes does not seem to be too serious, but clearly greater capital investment is required in the rafting technique compared to bottom-laying.\n\nOyster bed productivity\n\nThe productivity of an oyster bed is difficult to ascertain in view of the different cultch and spacings adopted, and because access to the beds and visibility is so poor. Mok (1974a) reports in his experiments that the density of 5 year old oysters was 89/m2 with an average of 9.2 oysters per cultch. The average wet weight of the soft parts of a marketable size oyster is about 25 g (Binnie & Partners, 1984). The biomass or standing crop would therefore be about 2.2 kg/m2 and, assuming a five year growth period, the production of oyster flesh would thus be 0.45 kg/m2 year. This production is a net figure, since no allowance is made for non-productive areas of the oyster bed (e.g., access paths).\n\nHong Kong oyster farmers indicated that 10,000 cultches with a range of marketable size oysters on each cultch of between 5 and 15, would take up an area of about 743 m2. Assuming 10 oysters",
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        "page_number": 334,
        "title": "RAS-1984",
        "content_text": "313\n\nteachings of the mission are Christian, the appearance of the eight-sided church and its surroundings are uncompromisingly Chinese, a gesture to the Buddhist pilgrim monks who found shelter there.\n\nKarl Ludvig Reichelt was born in 1877 at Bardu, near Arendal, Norway. The son of a sea captain, who died when Karl Ludvig was a child, he trained as a teacher at Notodden. He taught for a short period in Telemark and became a lay preacher in his spare time before entering the Norwegian Missionary Society training college at Stavanger.\n\nShortly after his ordination, Reichelt sailed for China, where, after language study, he was appointed to Ninghsiang, Hunan, where the Norwegian Missionary Society was active. It was his experience at Ninghsiang that influenced the rest of his missionary career. The impressions gained while on a visit to the famous Weishan monastery remained with him for the rest of his life.\n\n“I got a glimpse,” he wrote, “of a peculiar and exclusive world, a world charged with deep religious mysticism, a world full of tragedy and heart-rending but also marvellously rich in points of contact with sacred religious material.”\n\nIn response to what he felt to be a call from God, Reichelt decided to prepare for “special work among these people by the cultivation of friendly intercourse with the monks and enlightened lay people.”\n\nFrom that time Reichelt devoted himself to the study of Far Eastern religions and became in time one of the greatest contemporary authorities on the subject.\n\nReichelt's influence grew and he was later appointed to the staff of a Lutheran Theological Seminary at Shekow, near Hankow. His ideas on a Christian-Buddhist relationship matured sufficiently for him to submit to his home board a proposal for special work among Buddhists in China. He received support from his own missionary society, from the Church of Sweden and the Danish Missionary Society. He also toured Germany, Finland and the",
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        "series_title": "RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊",
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        "document_key": "RAS-1987",
        "page_number": 18,
        "title": "RAS-1987",
        "content_text": "June 24\n\nJuly 15\n\nProf. Alan Griffiths\n\n\"Victorian Flower Power'\n\nMr. Phillip Bruce\n\n\"The Bogue Forts'\n\nSeptember 29\n\nDr. Elizabeth Sinn\n\n'Kowloon Walled City' (repeat)\n\nOctober 17\n\nRev. Carl Smith\n\n\"History of the Wanchai District'\n\nOctober 28\n\nMr. Mitya New\n\n'Expatriates in Pre-Revolutionary China'\n\nNovember 27\n\nDr. Betty Wei Peh-T'i\n\n'Shanghai: Crucible of Modern China'\n\nFebruary 8\n\nMs. Veronica Pearson\n\n'Health and Welfare in Modern China'\n\nFebruary 27\n\nProf. Jean Chesneaux\n\n'China in the eyes of French intellectuals'\n\nLocal tours were made to the following places of interest: Wanchai and the Ruttonjee Sanitorium (7 November, led by Rev. Carl Smith and Dr. Elizabeth Sinn), Stonecutters Island (3 December, led by Phillip Bruce), the Hong Kong Bank Picture Collection (18 December, led by Mrs. Anita Wilson), Tai Po and Island House (9 January, led by Dr. Patrick Hase) and Sam Tung Uk Museum and Tin Hau Temple in Tsuen Wan (10 February, led by Dr. James Hayes).\n\nTours outside Hong Kong included two visits to Shekou, Humen and the Bogue Forts on 18/19 and 25/26 July organised and led by Phillip Bruce, and an eight-day visit to the Yangtse River Gorges starting 29 August led by Dr. Michael Lau.\n\nYou will, I am sure, agree that these activities have given a great deal of pleasure to members of the Society. Our thanks and appre-\n\nviii",
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