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a survey of student life, a study of method and practice of con- struction of the retail price index in Hong Kong, and a survey of the Colony's toy industry were completed. Research in progress includes social accounts, international trade, housing and labour problems in Hong Kong.

Studies of industrialization in China, foreign trade, communes and family life, educational changes, current bibliography and chronology, and a selection of documents, have been prepared for publication in Vol. III of Contemporary China. Other publications include a monograph on Government Acquisition of Agricultural Output in Mainland China, a study of China's Industrial Growth 1953-57 and a Dictionary of Simplified Chinese. A study has been undertaken of the social and economic conditions of rural Taiwan in 1952-58' in collaboration with the National University of Taiwan, and sponsored by the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction.

Research projects on Far Eastern subjects generally have included the economic development of Asia and the Far East, foreign trade patterns of Ceylon and the Philippines, the economic role of middlemen and co-operatives in Indo-Pacific Fisheries, central banking in South and East Asia, the economic history of Japan, and public administration in Far Eastern countries. Most of the results of these projects have been published. Preparatory work has been undertaken for the forthcoming Asian Conference of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth to be held at the University in 1960.

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 Portuguese Creole dialect of Hong Kong is in progress. Work has also been done, and is continuing, on the Portuguese Creole dialect of Macau. Some possible affinities between the Creole dialects of the Old World and those of the new, together with various problems involving race and speech, are being investigated. A study of words borrowed from other languages has been completed. Some of the results of this work have been made public through International Congresses and the appropriate learned