Bulletin Summer 1975

Reprint of Rare Classica: Chinese Books Kwun Tong and Western health services systems in Hong Kong; (9) revolutionary modern Peking opera in People's Republic of China; (10) manpower utilization in the communes of People's Republic of China; and (11) the emergence and development of Maoist sociology. Looking Ahead Most of the studies undertaken by the Social Research Centre have dealt with aspects of Chinese social life in Hong Kong. While this will continue to be a major emphasis in future research activities, the Social Research Centre hopes to expand its scope of concern to include other areas, especially Chinese societies in China and Southeast Asian countries. Since its main thrust so far has been ground-breaking in research, the Social Research Centre has accumulated a rich amount and variety of data. In the coming on e or two years, it is planned to carry out further analyses of the existing data and to utilize them more fully. By so doing, the Social Research Centre may be able to make a better contribution to the development of social science. In particular, it may be able to provide more effective recommendations for social policies and more relevant teaching material for the curriculum in Sociology. Most of Social Research Centre's reports and papers are written in English. Although this has been done to facilitate intellectual interchange on an international basis, the fact that they contain considerable specialized social science terminology does present difficulties for the ordinary Hong Kong citizen. From now on, the Social Research Centre intends to use Chinese more in writings to promote the use and maturation of social science in Chinese society. Where possible and appropriate, it also wishes to reduce the technical appearance of research publications so that through a simpler language intellectual ideas may be channelled into the society, to bring the University and the society closer together. While the Social Research Centre has had a considerable sociological "touch" even as it has incorporated other disciplinary approaches, it is hoped that more opportunities of participating in Social Research Centre's work would be made available to colleagues in the various social science departments. Moreover, it hopes to develop cooperative undertakings between colleagues in the social sciences and those in both the natural sciences and the humanities. It believes that as there is more interdisciplinary exchange of views and working together, the understanding of and hence contribution to Chinese society would be greater. A pagefrom The Story of West Pavilion 21