Bulletin Number Three 1986

senior theses on social structure, social organization, fishing activities, and economic and religious aspects o f the community have been written. Furthermore, a major jo in t video project by two senior students and a faculty member on the celebration o f the Dragon Boat Festival in Tai-0 has been completed. The com munity has also attracted the attention o f foreign anthropologists. For instance, Professor Yoshiro Shiratori, Director o f the Ethnohistorical Research Project o f Sophia University, Japan, organized a research team which included many distinguished Japanese ethnographers to carry out ethnographic research on this fishing community from 1981-84. Students o f the department were invited to participate in collecting ethnographic data. The team conducted a series o f field researches, which resulted in the publication o f The Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Kong (1985). The research projects so far carried out have by no means exhausted the anthropological data or weakened the justification for further investigations. On the contrary, in our opinion, further large-scale and in-depth studies must be carried out in order to reach a better understanding, not only o f the customs and other socio-cultural aspects o f the people o f the community, but also o f their cultural and historical relationship w ith other ethnic groups in southern China. This is supported by the fact that Dr. Jacques Lemoine, Director o f the Research Centre on the Anthropology o f South China and the Indo-Chinese Peninsula in Paris, fascinated by the cultural unique ness o f the community and curious about its historical ties w ith other ethnic m inority groups in South China, has proposed jo in t anthropological field research on the fishing community together w ith the department. We welcome this proposal as we are committed to further exploration o f such an anthropological treasure-house. The Future As the only institute performing intensive anthropological work in Hong Kong, the department is likely to prove particularly valuable in the years ahead as a data resource base and information ex change centre in such important areas as ethnicity and the study o f the national minorities o f China, the urbanization o f villages in the New Territories, studies o f the fishing communities in Tai-0 and other offshore islands, and investigation into further social aspects o f Hong Kong life . In the meantime, the department is intensively engaged in specialized research work and teaching projects, and offers its students practical opportunities o f testing their knowledge in the field and an introduction to cross-cultural problems which w ill be invaluable in their future careers. - Nicholas Tapp Dr. Chiao Chien Chairman ， Department o f Anthropology Trained in anthropology, Dr. Chiao Chien obtained his degrees o f BA in 1958 and MA in 1961 ， from National Taiwan University, and PhD in 1969 from Cornell University, USA. Before joining this univer sity in 1973 ， first as Lecturer, and then Senior Lecturer, Head o f the Anthropology Section, and since 1980 Chairman o f the Department, he had held positions as Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor o f Anthropology at Indiana University, and Associate Research Fellow and National Science Council Visiting Associate Professor at the Institute o f Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Dr. Chiao has been the Founding Chairman o f Hong Kong Anthropological Society, and o f the International Association for Yao Studies, and a member o f the Permanent Council o f the International Union o f Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES). He has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Taiwan, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and among the Navajo o f Arizona and New Mexico, and has organized inter national conferences and symposia as the Conferences on Modernization and Chinese Culture, held at the University in 1983 and 1985, and symposia at meetings o f the ICAES (1983) and the American Anthropological Association (1979). Despite his active teaching and research commitments, Dr. Chiao has published extensively. His publications and edited works include A F irs t Course in L ite ra ry Chinese (Cornell, 1968), Continuation o f Tradition in Navajo Society (1971), Proceedings o f the Conference on Modernization and Chinese Culture (1985 ， w ith Lee, King, Kuan and Lau), and New Asia Academic Bulletin Special Issue on Anthropological Studies o f China (1986 ， w ith Hsieh and Zee), besides numerous articles in journals such as East Asian Civilizations, E thnology, Bulle tin o f the Institu te o f E thno logy, Academia Sinica ， and Journal o f the Chinese Univer sity o f Hong Kong, and in collected volumes. —Nicholas Tapp 12 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS