Bulletin Summer 1976

Dr. Chien Chiao—"Continuity and Change in the Chinese Conception of Social Glasses" Prof. C.T. H u and Mr. Teh-chao Wa n g— "A Historical Analysis of the Controversy over the Retention or Abolition of the Examination System in Late Ch'ing" Dr. Ambrose Ki ng—"A Study on New Sociology in China under Communism" Mr. Yim Lee—‘‘Transcriptions and Annotations of Shang and Chou Bronze Inscriptions" "Sung Rubbings" Prof. C.T. Hu—"Ch i n a 's Manpower and Education Problems" Mr. Yim Lee et al.—"Compilation of Materials on Post-1937 Chinese Literature" Mrs. Ngai-ha Lun Ng—"Compilation of Teaching Materials on the History of Hong Kong" Dr. Y.Y. Ku e h—“ T h e Chinese Strategy for Technological Transformation in Agriculture, 1965—1975” Dr. Thomas Hong-chi Lee—"Education an d the Civil Service Examinations in Northern Sung China: A Preliminary Interpretation" "Education and the Examination System in Sung Ch i na " Mr. J o hn T. Myers—“The Role of Ethnicity in a Contemporary Chinese Ur b a n Commun i t y : The Chiu-chow Community in Hong Ko n g" Art Gallery A unique feature of the Institute is the Art Gallery. Exhibitions on various aspects of Chinese culture have bee n mounted and catalogues for some of them have also been printed by the Art Gallery. Catalogues available are: Bibliographical & Othe r Material Relating to the Dream of the Red Ch amb e r The Ch'in —the Seven String Zither Loh Tsai Hsien Collection of Calligraphic Couplets Landscape Painting s by Kwangtung Artists of the Ming & Ch'ing Periods Wah Kwong Collection of Ch'ing Porcelain Paintings & Calligraphy by Ming I-min from the Chih-lo Lou Collection Research Projects undertaken at the Gallery inc Research Project on Kwangtung Paintings Prof. Tsung-i Jao—"Artists and Art Theory of the Late Mi ng" Mr. J ame s Watt——"The Pottery Trad e in Southeast Asia from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries" Chinese Linguistics Research Centre The Chinese Linguistic s Research Centre, a research centre under the ICS, completed its major project, An Etymological Dictionary of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions (Chin-wen-ku4in) (Chief editor: Professor Chou Fa-kao) in 1975, which comprises 16 volumes, 10,000 pages and 3,000,000 words. Compilation of supplements to the Chin-wen Ku-lin is in progress: Part I : Appendix to the Chin-wen Ku-lin, it will be ready for publication i n December 1976 Part I I : Catalogue of the Bronze Inscriptions as Quoted in the Chin-wen Ku-lin Part I I I : Texts of the Bronze Inscriptions as Quoted in the Chin-wen Ku-lin Part I V : Addenda to the Chin-wen Ku-lin Part II, Part I I I and Part IV are expected to be completed within the next two years. The manuscripts of A Comparative Study of the Mandarin Vocabulary in Several Text Books for Westerners (by Mr. Kwok-cheung Ho) and A Dictionary of the Ch’ao-ckou Dialect are read y for the press. Another project for a modern edition of Wa n g Nien-sun's (王念孫） Kuang Ya Chu Cheng（廣雅疏證） involves three stages of work: (1) A new version with complet e punctuation marks (2) A complete index of the text (3) A complete index of the words quoted in the text This has been under the supervision of Professor Chou Fa-kao and the final supervision of Professor D.C. Lau of the London University.