Bulletin Number Two 1982

The Neolithic Site of Pan-po By Lin Shou-chin (Titles in English) Pan-po is a typical site of the Neolithic Age. The book, based on a wealth of data on the site, expounds various aspects of society, economy and culture of the middle reaches of the Yellow River seven thousand years ago. 1st edition 1981 134 pages Paperback The People ’s Commune and Rural Development Edited by Rance P. L. Lee and Lau Siu-kai This book is a collection of articles contributed by the academics of the Research Unit on People's Commune, set up by the University's Social Research Centre for interdisciplinary research on the social life and economic construction of the people's commune. Apart from collecting documents and data on the subject, the Unit visited several county towns and communes in Guangdong Province. The book is in the main a study of the Doushan People's Commune, Taishan County, but it also comes up wit h some general conclusions. 1st edition 1981 290 pages Paperback Wang Ch'uan Shan te Chih Chih Lun By Hsu Kwan San This is another book by the expert on Wang Ch'uan Shan's thinking. The six chapters are entitled: "The Tao is Infinite; The Sage Does Not Exhaus t the Tao”; “The Heaven that a Wise Man Knows is the Heaven of Man"; “When it Changes, Know that it Progresses; When it Progresses, Know that it Changes"; “Nothing is Constant in the Distinction of Right and Wrong"; “Unity Cannot Be Seen without the Establishment of Duality"; and "Human Minds are Similar, but the Trouble is in its Dissimilarity; the Function of the Mind Must Follow Definite Laws, but the Trouble is in its Inflexibility". 1st edition 1981 144 pages Paperback Chinese Dialectology: A Selected and Classified Bibliography By Paul Fu-mien Yang, S.J. This ia a comprehensive bibliography covering the whole field of Chinese dialectology. It differs from existing compilations in scope, criteria for inclusion, bibliographical exactness and format. The work includes all important published studies — both book s and periodical articles — in many languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, French, German, Dutch, etc. The Chinese, Japanese and Korean entries are given i n Chinese characters, transliteration (Wade-Giles romanization), and English translation. A cross reference is given when an entry belongs to more than one category. 1st edition 1981 189 pages Hardcover Circulation of News in the Third World — A Study of Asia By Wilbur Schramm and Erwin Atwood The authors of the book have analysed the flow of Third World news, and for the first time have been able to follow it from the news as reported in the country of origin, to the items picked up by the news wires, to the items reprinted from the wires by newspapers in other Thir d World countries, and thence to the readers themselves. The book is richly documented, and an appendix containing forty detailed tables provides a basis for reference and further studies. 1st edition 1981 352 pages Hardcover The Common Welfare: Hong Kong's Social Services Edited by John F. Jones The book is a collection of studies on Hong Kong's social policy, programmes and related issues. It offers a scholarly, critical and readable account of ACADEMIC/CULTURAL EVENTS 25