Selected Papers & Book Chapters
Zhiwu Chen
Chair Professor
Chen, Zhiwu, Cameron Campbell, Debin Ma (eds.) (2025) Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions and Development. Springer Nature.
Chen, Zhiwu (2022) Logic of Civilization: How Humans have Innovated to Deal with Risk《文明的邏輯：人類與風險的博弈》. Beijing: CITIC Press.
Chen, Zhiwu (ed.) (2021) Quantitative History Research, Vol 6《量化历史研究 (第六辑) 》Co-edited by Debin Ma and Denggao Long. China: Science Publishers.
Chen, Zhiwu (ed.) (2019) Quantitative History Research, Vol 5《量化历史研究 (第五辑) 》. Co-edited by Debin Ma and Denggao Long. China: Science Publishers.
Chen, Zhiwu, Peng Kaixing and Lin, Zhan (2025) Rise of the south: How Arab-led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE. Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, 65(1): 3–38.
Chen, Zhiwu (2024) Quantitative History Research, Vol 7《量化历史研究 (第七辑) 》 Shanghai: Jiao Tong University Press. Co-edited with co-edited with Debin Ma and Denggao Long.
Chen, Zhiwu, Lin, Zhan and Zhang, Xiaoming (2024) Hedging desperation: How kinship networks reduced cannibalism in historical China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 52(2), 362–82.
Chen, Zhiwu, and Ma, Chicheng (2023) Quantitative history studies on China: State capacity, institutions, culture and human capital from prehistoric times to the present. Asia-Pacific Economic History Review Special Issue: Quantitative Studies on Chinese Economic History (co-edited by Zhiwu Chen and Chicheng Ma), 63(2): 128-44.
Chen, Zhiwu and Peng, Kaixing (2022) Production, consumption, and living standards. In The Cambridge Economic History of China, Volume 1: To 1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 676-709. Edited by Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn.
Chen, Zhiwu, Ma Chicheng and Sinclair, Andrew (2022) Banking on the Confucian Clan: Why China developed financial markets so late. The Economic Journal, 132(644), 1378-413.
David A. Palmer
Professor
Palmer, David A. and Siegler, Elijah (2017) Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Palmer, David A. and Goossaert, Vincent (2011) The Religious Question in Modern China. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Palmer, David A. (2007) Qigong Fever. Body, Science and Utopia in China. New York: Columbia University Press & London: Hurst.
Palmer, David A. and Estévez, Joseba (2024) Ritual, war, and opium: Infrastructural sedimentations in the ethnohistory of the Mun (Lanten Yao) of Laos. Modern Asian Studies, 58(5): 1299-341.
Palmer, David A. and Woods, Orlando (2024) The sacred dimensions of the BRI’s infrastructural commons. Modern Asian Studies, 58(5): 1259-75.
Palmer, David A. and Ning, Rundong (2024) Intimate Utopias: Anti-politics in Chinese Civil Society. American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 13: 591-535.
Palmer, David A. and Ning, Rundong (2020) Ethics of the heart: Moral breakdown and the aporia of Chinese volunteers. Current Anthropology, 61(4): 395-417.
Palmer, David A and Wan, Zhaoyuan (2019) The cosmopolitan moment in colonial modernity: The Bahá’í faith, spiritual networks and universalist movements in early twentieth century China. Modern Asian Studies, 54(6):1-41.
Palmer, David A and Winiger, Fabian (2019) Neo-socialist governmentality: Managing freedom in the Peoples’ Republic of China. Economy and Society, 48(4): 554-78. (Externally reviewed.)
Palmer, David A. and Jammes, Jérémy (2018) Occulting the Dao: Daoist inner alchemy, French spiritism and translingual practice in Vietnamese colonial modernity. Journal of Asian Studies, 77(2): 405–28.
John D. Wong
Professor
Wong, John D. (2022) Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s – 1998. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Asia Center: Harvard University Press. (香港振翅: 民航業與全球樞紐的發展，1930s – 1998. Chinese edition. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023.)
Wong, John D. (2016) Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. (《大交流——伍秉鑑的怡和行與十九世紀的全球貿易》. Traditional Chinese edition, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025; Simplified Chinese edition, Guangzhou: Guangdong People’s Publishing House, 2026 (forthcoming).
Wong, John D. (ed.) (2025) The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business. Special issue, Business History Vol 67 Issue 7. Co-edited with Jin-A Kang and Ghassan Moazzin.
Wong, John D. and Wong, Andrew D. (2023) The ongoing business of Chinese language reform: A view from the periphery of Hong Kong in the last half century. Modern China, 49(4): 448–79.
Wong, John D. (2023) ‘Made in Hong Kong’: Deriving value from the place-of-origin label, 1950s and now. Modern Asian Studies, 57(3): 895-917.
Wong, John D., Ng, M., Mok, F., and Wu, W. (2023) Hearts and minds in Hong Kong’s New Territories: Agriculture and vegetable marketing in a Cold War borderland, circa 1946–1967. Modern Asian Studies, 57(6): 1931-58.
Wong, John D. (2023) Hong Kong breaking into the international league: Cathay Pacific’s extension to long-haul routes. International Journal of Asian Studies, 20(1): 137-56.
Wong, John D. (2022) Constructing the legitimacy of governance in Hong Kong: ‘Prosperity and Stability’ meets ‘Democracy and Freedom. The Journal of Asian Studies, 81(1):43–61.
Wong, John D. (2022) Flexible corporate nationality: Transforming Cathay Pacific for the shifting geopolitics of Hong Kong in the closing decades of British colonial rule. Enterprise & Society, 23(2): 445–77.
Wong, John D. (2021) Making Vitasoy ‘local’ in post-WWII Hong Kong: Traditionalizing modernity, engineering progress, nurturing aspirations. Business History Review, 95(2): 275–300.
Ji Li
Associate Professor
Li, Ji. (2023) At the Frontier of God’s Empire: A Missionary Odyssey in Modern China. New York: Oxford University Press. (monograph)
Li, Ji (ed.) (2021) Missions Étrangères de Paris (MEP) and China since the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Leiden: Brill.
Li, Ji. (2015) God’s Little Daughters: Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. (monograph)
Li, Ji (2021) Mobility and identity: Christianity and the making of local society in Northeast China, 1840-1945. Catholic Historical Review, 107(2): 253-76.
Li, Ji (2019) Filing and research of Paris Foreign Mission’s archives of the Vicariate Apostolic of Manchuria. Hong Kong Journal of Catholic Studies, 10: 131-51.
Li, Ji (2019) ‘Little flowers’: Chinese Christian women in Northeast China. In The Contribution of Chinese Women to the Church. Edited by Piotr Adamek and Sonja Huang Mei Tin. Siegburg: Franz Schmitt Verlag, pp.103-18.
Li, Ji (2018) Catholic communities and local governance in Northeast China. The China Review, 18(4): 107-29.
Li, Ji (2016) ‘Sacred heart’ and the Appropriation of Catholic Faith in nineteenth-century China. In Reshaping the Boundaries: Ming-Qing Chinese Encounters with Western Culture. Edited by Song Gang. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 76-90.
Li, Ji (2013) ‘God’s little daughters’: Christian virgins and Catholic communities of women in northeast China. Chinese Historical Review, 20(1): 16-33.
Li, Ji (2012) Measuring Catholic faith in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century China. In God’s Empire: French Missionaries and the Modern World. Edited by Owen White and J. P. Daughton. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 173-94.
Ghassan Moazzin
Assistant Professor
Moazzin, Ghassan (2022) Foreign Banks and Global Finance in Modern China: Banking on the Chinese Frontier, 1870–1919. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kang, Jin-A, Moazzin, Ghassan, and Wong, John D. (eds.) (2025) The global economy and the origins of modern Chinese business. Special Issue in Business History, 67(7): 1-18.
Kang, Jin-A, Moazzin, Ghassan, and Wong, John D. (2025) Modern Chinese enterprise and the global economy: A historiographical essay. Special Issue in Business History, 67(7): 1733-50.
Moazzin, Ghassan (2025) Incomplete Infrastructure: State-building and the early history of China’s long-distance telephone network, 1900–1937. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 3: 177-203
Moazzin, Ghassan (2024) Banking on distant shores: A comparison of the development of foreign banks in pre-World War I China and Japan. International Journal of Asian Studies, 22(2): 253-71.
Moazzin, Ghassan (2024) Electric pioneers: Nationalist lobbying, technology transfer, and the origins of the Chinese electric lamp industry, 1921–1937. Enterprise & Society, 25(1): 213-47.
Moazzin, Ghassan (2020) Investing in the New Republic: Multinational banks, political risk, and the Chinese Revolution of 1911. Business History Review, 94(3): 507-34.
Moazzin, Ghassan (2020) Sino-foreign business networks: Foreign and Chinese banks in the Chinese banking sector, 1890 – 1911. Modern Asian Studies , 54(3): 970-1004.
Moazzin, Ghassan (2019) Networks of capital: German bankers and the financial internationalisation of China (1885 – 1919). Enterprise & Society, 20, No. 4 (2019): 796-808.
Moazzin, Ghassan (2015) From globalization to liquidation: The Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and the First World War in China. Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 4(2): 601-29.
Yuqi Chen
Assistant Professor
Chen, Y., Shang, W., Wang, H., Zhang, S., and Bol, P. K. (2025) Geocoding the past world: Unearthing coordinates of early China from texts using generative AI. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 40(2): 1-27.
Chen, Y., Atari, M., Slingerland, E., Hong, Z., Fu, X., Wang, H., Schulz, J., Bol, P.K., and Henrich, J. (2025) Psychological change and kinship intensity in China over two millennia. PsyArXiv.
Chen, Y., Li, Y., Zhou, K. Z., Fu, X., Liu, L., Bao, S., Sui, D., & Zhang, L. (2024) Global public sentiment on decentralized finance: A spatiotemporal analysis of Geo-tagged Tweets from 150 Countries.
Chen, Y., Li, S., Li, Y., & Atari, M. (2024) Surveying the dead minds: Historical-psychological text analysis with contextualized construct representation (CCR) for classical Chinese. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Edited by Y. Al-Onaizan, M. Bansal, & Y.-N. Chen, pp. 2597–615. Texas: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Sijie Hu
Assistant Professor
Hu, Sijie (2025) Evolutionary advantage of moderate fertility during Ming–Qing China: A unified growth perspective. Journal of Economic Growth, 30(4):497-519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-025-09255-5.
Hu, Sijie (2023) Survival of the Literati: Social status and reproduction in Ming–Qing China. Journal of Population Economics, 36(4): 2025-70.
Cai, Yang, Hu, Sijie, and Sun, Shengmin (2023) Confucianism and War Mobilization: Evidence from Chinese Revolutions. Cliometrica, 18(2): 1-37.
Hu, Sijie (2023) Descendants over 300 years: Marital fertility in five lineages in Qing China. Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, 63(2): 200-24.
Hu, Sijie, and Liu, Ziang (2025) “与人口赛跑: 重视前现代中国与英国人口与生产力的长期趋势” (Racing with population: Revisiting the long-run population and productivity in early modern China and England). Qing History Journal (清史研究), 1: 35–46.
Hu, Sijie, and Wang, Jue (2024) “明清时期的性别歧视: 以江浙地区六个家族为例” (Gender discrimination during the Ming and Qing dynasties: A case study of six lineages in Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces). Economic Theory and Business Management (经济理论与经济管理), 6: 125-40.
Xin Su
Assistant Professor
Su, Xin and Jing, Zhichun (2024) Panlongcheng (1995-2019) III: The Study on Jades and Stones. Beijing: Science Press.
Su, Xin and Tang, Xiaojia (2025) A study on the tombs of the Erlitou site from a quantitative pesoective. Huaxia Archaeology, 3: 89-98.
Zhuo, Sun, Peng Weiwei, and Su, Xin (2024) Cultural factors of pottery at Panlongcheng and the production context. Cultural Relics in Southern China, 3: 115-26.
Tang, Xiaojia, Shen, Shui and Su, Xin (2022) From rammed earth to stone wall: Chronological insight into the settlement change of the Lower Xiajiadian culture. PloS One, 17(8): e0273161.
Su, Xin, Tang, Xiaojia, Zou, Qiushi, and Zhang, Changping (2021) Stones from the Bronze Age: Raw materials and exploration of the stone artifacts from Panlongcheng. Journal of Archaeological Science, 40: 103259.
Su, Xin, Zou, Qiushi, Yao, Shuchun, Li Chunhai, Zhu, Sanyuan, and Zhang, Cangping (2021) Mapping Panlongcheng: New Work on the type-site of the early Shang period (1500-1300 BC) in Hubei Province. China. Land, 10(10), 1033.
Womack, Andrew, Flad, Rowan, Zhou, Jing, Brunson, Katherine, Toro, Fabian H., Su, Xin Hein, Anke (2021) The Majiayao to Qijia transition: Exploring the intersection of technological and social continuity and change. Asian Archaeology, 4(2): 1-26.
Sun, Zhuo, Su, Xin, Yan, Pan Wu, Xiaohong, Chen, Hui, Zou, Qiushi, and Lu, Jindong (2020) Recent radiocarbon dates for the Panlongcheng site. Jianghan Archaeology, 6: 103-15.
Su, Xin (2018) Initial exploration into the origins and raw materials of the stone artifacts from Panlongcheng. Jianghan Archaeology, 5: 162-68.
Su, Xin and Bei, Wen (2017) A discussion on the hierarchical identity of SuizhongMijia Ding. Jianghan Archaeology, 4: 76-82.
Chun Fung Tong
Assistant Professor
Tong, Chun Fung (2024) Sate Power and Governance in Early Imperial China: The Collapse of the Qin Empire, 221–207 BCE. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture), 2024.
Tong, Chun Fung (2025) The Emergence of logistics networks and financial administration during the Qin Conquest (230–221 BCE). Early China 48: 1-30.
Tong, Chun Fung (2024) Han Wendi chunian junguozhi de zhengbei yu zhongyang, difang quanli fenpei bulun: Zhangjiashan 336 hao mu Hanjian ‘Gong ling’ du ji” 漢文 帝初年郡國制的整備與中央、地方權力分配補論：張家山336號墓漢簡《功令》讀記 (The Configuration of the Commandery-Regional Kingdom System and the Distribution of Power Between Central and Local Governments in the Early Reign of Han Emperor Wen: Notes upon Reading the Ordinances on Merits from the Zhangjiashan Tomb No. 336). Zhongguo wenhua yanjiusuo xuebao 中國文化研究所學報 80 (2025): 75-123.
Tong, Chun Fung (2024) Between slip and tablet: Rulership and writing Support in Eastern Han China, 25–220 CE. In Keeping Record: The Materiality of Rulership and Administration in Early China and Medieval Europe, pp. 119–154. Berlin: de Gruyter. Edited by Abigail S. Armstrong, Matthias Kuhn, Jörg Peltzer, and Chun Fung Tong.
Tong, Chun Fung (2023) The reformation of social order in the Qin Empire. Asia Major, 36(1): 95–136.
Tong, Chun Fung (2023) The monumentalisation of communal memories in Eastern Han China, 25–220 CE. In East Asia beyond the Archives: Missing Sources and Marginal Voices, pp. 39-76. Leiden: Leiden University Press. Edited by Catherine S. Chan and Tsang Wing Ma.
Tong, Chun Fung (2021) The construction of territories in the Qin Empire. T’oung Pao 107: 509-54.
Tong, Chun Fung (2021) Framing the Qin collapse: Redaction and authorship of the Shiji 史記.” Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques 75(4): 901-46.
Tong, Chun Fung (2018) “Qin zhi Xi Han shuguo de zhiguan zhidu yu anzhi moshi” 秦至西漢屬國的職官制度與安置模式 (The Bureaucracy and settlement pattern of dependent states during the Qin and Western Han Dynasties). Zhongguoshi yanjiu 中國史研究 3: 43-62. Co-authored with Lai Ming Chiu 黎明釗.
Tong, Chun Fung (2014) “Qin Han di difang duguan yu difang xingzheng” 秦漢的地方都官與地方行政 (The Administrative relationships between the regional Duguan and local administrations during the Qin and Han Dynasties). Xin Shixue 新史學 25(3):1–63.
Doudou Cao
Research Assistant Professor
Cao, D., Liu, X., Gu, W., Zhu, H., Zhang, R., Zhou, Z., Wei, Q., Zou, J., Qiu, Y., Chen, J., Ding, L., Pomeroy, E., & Yuan, H. (2025) Dental caries as indicators of agricultural practices in the foothills of Neolithic China. Archaeological Research in Asia, 43: 100645.
Wang, X., Cao, D., Gu, W., Wei, Q., Chen, X.-L., Zhang, R., Ding, L., Tang, Z., Teng, X., Wang, T., Zou, J., Qiu, Y., Fu, Q., & Yuan, H. (2025) Multi-isotope analysis reveals human millet-based diets and limited mobility in the Central Plains of China ca. 5000 years ago. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 35: e3407.
Cao, D., Crema, E. R., & Pomeroy, E. (2024) Estimating intralimb proportions for commingled remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 34(5): e3326.
Yi, B., Yuan, H., Wang, T., Cao, D., Yang, Y., & Hu, Y. (2024) Life history of a high‐class noblewoman from the late Shu state in the Chengdu Plain during the Eastern Zhou period (770–221 BC): Childhood stresses and stable life. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 34(1): e3282.
Tao, L., Yuan, H., Zhu, K., Liu, X., Guo, J., Min, R., He, H., Cao, D., Yang, X., Zhou, Z., Wang, R., Zhao, D., Ma, H., Chen, J., Zhao, J., Li, Y., He, Y., Suo, D., Zhang, R., Li, S., Li, L., Yang, F., Li, H., Zhang, L., Jin, L., & Wang, C.-C. (2023). Ancient genomes reveal millet farming–related demic diffusion from the Yellow River into southwest China. Current Biology, 33(22), 4995–5002.e7.
Lu, H., Li, Z., Ciren, C., Cao, D., Gao, X., & Li, L. (2022) Sding Chung: An early multi-burial cave site on the Tibetan Plateau. Antiquity, 96(387): 745–53.
Yuan, H., Gu, W., Wei, Q., Wu, Q., Ding, L., and Cao, D. (2022) Analysis of dental caries in the Yangshao population at the Qingtai site, Zhengzhou. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 41(2), 226–37. (In Chinese) 原海兵,顾万发,魏青利,吴倩,丁兰坡,曹豆豆.郑州青台遗址新石器时代中晚期人群龋齿的统计与分析[J]. 人类学学报, 41(2): 226-37
Cao, D., and Yuan, H. (2021) Preliminary analysis of commingled human remains. Yellow River, Yellow Earth, Yellow Race, 6: 41-4. (In Chinese) 曹豆豆 & 原海兵 (2021) 浅析考古所见多个体混合人骨遗存的分类.黄河.黄土.黄种人, 6: 41-4.
Cao, D. (2017) Seeing humans through bones: A multidimensional perspective on ancient human life — Summary of the Second Annual Meeting of the Osteoarchaeology Committee of the Chinese Archaeological Society. China Cultural Relics News, (006), (2017, November 17) (in Chinese) 透骨见人：多维视角探寻多彩的古代人类生活——中国考古学会人类骨骼考古专业委员会第二届年会综述. 中国文物报 2017年11月17日6版
