Bulletin Number Three 1986

Guangdong: A n Analysis Based on Population S tructure.' Hsieh Jiann: 'A Prelim inary Study o f Territorial Endogamy o f the Pai Yao in L iannan.' Sixth Session: Chairman Georges Condominas Discussant Chen Chi-nan Speakers Pan Cai-wan: 'D istribution and Origin o f the Yao in R uyuan.' Lai Cai-qing: ‘Social Change in the Liannan Yao A rea . ， Seventh Session: Chairman Liao Bao-yun Discussant Herbert C. Purnell Speakers Chiao Chien: ‘Sexual Equality and Patrilineality: A Case o f Pai Yao.' Song En-chang: The Fam ily System and Its E th ic among the Yunnan Yao. ' Eighth Session: Chairman Zee Yun-yang Discussant Nicholas C.T. Tapp Speakers Hu Qi-wang: 'A Prelim inary Study o f Yao Shifting Cultiva tion .' Peter Kandre: ‘The Relevance o f Ecology and/o r Economy fo r the Study o f Yao R e lig ion . ， Ninth Session: Chairman Song En-chang Discussant Michel Strickman Speakers Jao Tsung-i: ‘Some Remarks on the Yao Documents Found in Thailand and Edited by Y. S h ira to ri. ， Kok Hu-jin: ‘Some Aspects o f Yao B e lie f System. ， Tenth Session: Chairman Jacques Lemoine Discussant Huang Yu Speakers Zhang You-juan: 'A Simple Expla nation o f the Yao Taoist Beliefs among the Yao o f the One Hundred Thousand M oun ts. ， Michel Strickman: 'Chinese Sources o f Yao R itu a l and M y th .' Eleventh Session: Chairman Peter Kandre Discussant Kok Hu-jin Speakers James A. Standifer: ‘The Folksongs ， Dance ， and Culture o f the Yao N a tio n a lity . ， Herbert C. Purnell: ‘The Metrical Structure o f Yiu Mien Secular Songs.' Twelfth Session: Chairman Yeung Yu-ping Discussant Jacques Lemoine Speakers Huang Yu: 'Preliminary Study o f K ing Ping's Charter. ， Li Mo: ‘The A ncien t D istribu tion o f the Yao in Guangdong. ， Thirteenth Session: Chairman Gordon B. Downer Discussant James A. Standifer Speaker Jacques Lemoine: ‘Yao Culture and Some O ther Related Problems. ， The concluding session o f the colloquium was held at the Hong Kong Institute for Promotion o f Chinese Culture and chaired by Dr. Chiao Chien. Speaking at the concluding session were Mr. Yeung Yu-ping, General Manager o f the Institute, Jacques Lemoine, Director, the Research Centre on the Anthropology o f South China and the Indo-Chinese Peninsula o f the French National Centre o f Scientific Research, and Mr. Liu Yao-quan, Director, Guangdong Research Institute o f M inority Nationalities. To promote the public understanding o f the Yao people, an exhibition o f 'Arts and Artifacts o f the Yao Minorities o f North Guangdong' jo in tly pre sented by the Hong Kong Institute for Promotion o f Chinese Culture and the Guangdong Research Institute o f M inority Nationalities was held at the Hong Kong Institute for Promotion o f Chinese Culture from 3rd to 30th May. Exhibits included some o f the tools, implements and costumes, articles and religious items o f the Yao people's cultural and artistic activities before the 1950s. Following the colloquium, participants set out for a field trip to Liannan and Ruyuan Yao Autonomous Counties o f Northern Guangdong on 30th May, at the invitation o f the Commission for M inority Nationalities Affairs o f GuangdongProvince. Discussions were held during the trip w ith local Yao people and Chinese officials who were involved in the research on Yao culture as well as socio-economic development o f the Yao communities. The colloquium was considered a great success. It was unanimously decided by the thirty-one partici pants to officially establish a permanent organization, the International Association for Yao Studies, dealing w ith the development o f research on Yao culture and the various groups which share this culture. A t the first meeting o f the Executive Committee o f the Association held in Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County on 4th June, major jo in t research projects on Yao culture were proposed and it was also agreed that the second International Colloquium on Yao Studies would be held in Guangxi in 1988 ， and the third one in Paris in 1990. 4 NEWS