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The section of "Yarn Production and Properties" focuses on the progress of technologies in the field of yarn production. It is stated that a steady progress has been seen recently in traditional methods of yarn production, the large-scale establishment of new areas of technology, and the prospect of commercial exploitation of even newer concepts within the not too distant future. It is also reported that the pace of technological developments was described in a recent paper presented to the Overseas Conference of the Textile Institute in Hong Kong, China in November, 1973.

This article focuses on the personality structure of Chinese college students in Taiwan and Hong Kong, China. It is generally recognized that the social environment in which a person lives usually imposes on him certain awarenesses that may influence or alter his values, beliefs, attitudes toward self and others, or his style of life. The present paper reports the use of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire in a study of a sample of Chinese college students in two different educational and social environments--specifically, in a study of personality differences between Taiwan and Hong Kong college students. The Taiwan subjects included 159 males and 139 females enrolled at Taiwan Provincial Normal University, while the Hong Kong subjects were 93 males and 165 females attending Chu-hai College, Kowloon. The translated items were again rechecked and modified by the consensus of several Chinese social scientists. Within the female group, eight of the personality differences exceeded the 0.05 level of significance, while five of the male personality comparisons exceeded the 0 .05 level.

A cross-cultural comparison was made between Dogmatism scores of British and Hong Kong Chinese students. The mean D score of Hong Kong subjects was significantly higher than the mean score of British subjects. It is suggested that Hong Kong subjects may be more closed-minded than British subjects, or they may be more acquiescent. For Chinese-English bilingual subjects the mean score on a Chinese translation of the D scale was significantly higher than the mean score on the English language scale. This last finding is considered to have important implications for cross-cultural measurement using verbal instruments, and it may also be relevant to studies in linguistic relativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a study, which highlights educational experience, deemed as an influence on modern and traditional attitudes. The evidence is taken from Hong Kong, China to prove the hypothesis of the above study. A recurrent theme in studies of developing countries stresses the "modernizing" influence of an experience of formal education. It was hypothesized that the different educational experiences of young people in Hong Kong would be associated with patterns of response to 11 statements reflecting "modern" and "traditional" attitudes. It was hypothesized that "modern" responses to the 11 attitude statements would be associated with particular educational experiences, as follows: (a) young people with some experience of secondary education would be relatively "modern" compared with those without secondary education; (b) young people with some experience of higher education would be relatively "modern" compared with those without higher education; and (c) young people with an education exclusively in Anglo-Chinese schools would be relatively "modern" compared with those with an education exclusively in Chinese schools.