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EDUCATION

In the University of Hong Kong, the Centre of Asian Studies sponsored a number of projects including studies of urban squatters in Hong Kong, trade unions, attitudes of youth towards modernisa- tion and industrialisation, locational preferences and characteristics of Hong Kong street hawkers, traditional Chinese medicine, schools of painters in South China, the development of exchange banking in the Far East, the writing of a concise Cantonese-English dictionary, and a statistical study of the local population. In arts and social sciences, research continued on external trade and economic devel- opment in Hong Kong, and a new project on the purpose and plan- ning of new towns in developing countries was started. A study on technological change and industrial development in Hong Kong was undertaken and work was also done on linguistic philosophy, and the analysis of free associations in Chinese. In the medical faculty, the study of the growth and development of Chinese children entered its fifth year. Other projects included studies of neonatal jaundice, homotransplantation of liver in dogs, homologous joint transplanta- tion and biochemical differentiation. In science, engineering and architecture, high building research continued as did research on the characteristics and properties of Hong Kong soils. Other projects included studies on building economics, plant products, ionospheric data, the development of the rice plant, thermodynamics and solid state physics.

In The Chinese University of Hong Kong, research centres have been set up under the university's three Research Institutes (the In- stitute of Social Studies and the Humanities, the Institute of Science and Technology, and the Institute of Chinese Studies). These provide wide-ranging research and training opportunities for staff and stu- dents of the university.

Among the many projects in the social studies and humanities field, there were studies on the impact of urban industrialism on a Chinese village; the various aspects of Hong Kong's hawkers; the Kwun Tong health services; the industrial community of Kwun Tong; the Tung Tau Tsuen resettlement estate; the foster parents plans; teacher education; juvenile violence; and family planning. Science and technology projects included physiological studies on the mudskipper fish; pollution studies in Tolo Harbour; and marine ecology of Tolo Harbour. Chinese studies included Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong; the compilation of a Chinese-English dic- tionary of modern usage; and a Dictionary of Spoken Chiu Chow Dialect.