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the economic history of Japan; central banking in South-East Asia; the political structure of Hong Kong; and a comparative study of public administration in the Far East. Research on the elasticity of demand for rice is continuing. In addition, the work of the Department's Economic Research Section and its open post- graduate Seminar on Problems of Contemporary China, carried on with the support of the Asia Foundation, are continuing, and the results are currently being published in the annual journal Contemporary China (edited by Professor E. S. Kirby) and in various books issued or in preparation by the Hong Kong University Press.

In the Department of English research proceeds, concerning chiefly English literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the connexions between the ancient classics and English prose and poetry. A selection of Tennyson's poems_with a biographical and critical introduction is being prepared for publication. An anthology of Elizabethan poems designed for the eastern reader or student is also in preparation, and certain special language studies are in progress.

Research in the Department of Modern Languages has included the study of vernaculars arising from contact between the West and Asian countries. An analysis of the Spanish Creole dialects of the Philippines has already been published and a survey of the Macanese sub-dialect of Hong Kong is now in progress. Work has also been done on problems relating to China coast pidgin and to exotic elements in the vocabulary of English as spoken in Hong Kong.

The members of the Department of Chinese and of the Institute of Oriental Studies produced Volume III, Number 2 of the Journal of Oriental Studies during 1958. The journal includes the re- searches of Mr. H. L. Lo on the last days of the Sung Dynasty in the Hong Kong region, and part of the researches of Mr. T. I. Jao on ancient Chinese manuscripts preserved in Japan. The results of a number of other research projects on Chinese historical subjects were published by Mr. H. L. Lo in several monographs and in various Chinese Journals. Mr. T. I. Jao has continued and nearly completed his massive research work on the Oracle Bone Diviners of the Shang-Yin Period. In the Institute of Oriental Studies, Mr. JEN Yu-wen has completed and published his monumental