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Chang Teh-chang carried out research on Li Tz'u-ming and his views on modernization and foreign relations of China in the years 1863-89. The Geographical Research Centre pursued a programme of research in Chinese geography, collecting research data and reference material, preparing base maps and completing many papers on Chinese cultural geography.

Linguistics studies included Prof Chou Fa-kao's work on the Fan ch'ieh in Hsüan-yin's Yi-ch'ieh-ching-yin-i, Miss Lin Lien-hsien's study on the Swatow dialect and Mr Lung Yu-chun's textual criticism of Wang Jen-hsü's Chieh-yün. Plans were made to have Dr Chao Yuan-ren's Grammar of Spoken Chinese translated into Chinese by Mrs Beverly Hung Fincher, while Language Reform in Mainland China, by Mr Chao Lin, neared its anticipated publication early in 1967. In the field of social studies, Mr Hu Chia-chien conducted a study of kaifong welfare associations in Hong Kong.

Of 17 projects for which grants were made by the Institute of Science and Technology, the following articles were published: Morphological Characteristics of Volvariclla Volvacea, Cleavage of B-Ketonic Esters by Action of Metal Iodides, and Methanolysis of Some Para-monosubstituted Fluorobenzenes.

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