Table of Contents Abstract Popular history tells the story of how the tea boycott during the American Revolution caused a transition in American taste from tea to coffee, making […]
Table of Contents Abstract In early twentieth-century Britain, the Malayan pineapple was the cheapest yet most-consumed canned fruit, largely produced by Chinese enterprises in British Malaya. Existing scholarship treats this […]
Table of Contents Abstract Historians know very little about the movements of silver within China for all of the Qing dynasty and yet some understanding of them is crucial […]
Conference Program (PDF version with full abstracts) Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas 24 June 1.30pm-2pm: Registration Location: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus 2pm: Welcome Location: Run Run […]
ABSTRACT Economic planning in socialist China required the local planners to gather comprehensive information within their jurisdiction on one hand and implement centrally issued plan on the other. The dual […]
ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring […]
Before the late twentieth century, the Upper Yangzi River and its tributaries had long been formidable, so navigation along these river segments hinged on various shipping groups on the ground.
ABSTRACTThis article examines the experiences of the DuPont Company’s operations in Shanghai during the tumultuous period of China’s Communist Revolution, from the immediate post-World War II recovery to the outbreak […]
ABSTRACTThis talk forms part of a larger project investigating the mechanisms of socialist learning and knowledge accumulation in foreign trade during the Maoist era, through a historical and comparative study […]
ABSTRACTThis talk presents Dr Yuan Jia Zheng’s book project, The Transformation of China’s Automobile Industry since 1953: Multinationals, Technology Transfer, and Electric Vehicles, which explores the long-term evolution of China’s […]
ABSTRACTThe Yunnan–Indochina Railway, a French investment in imperial China during the age of “railroad colonialism,” was designed to link French-colonized Indochina to Chinese markets and to stimulate cross-border trade in […]
ABSTRACTAsia, encompassing the eastern Eurasian continent and its island regions, is home to over 60% of the world’s population and is characterized by profound geographical, cultural, and social diversity. Against […]
CONFERENCE PROGRAM(PDF version with full abstracts) 21 August 10.45am-11.15am: Registration Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus 11.15am: Welcome Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run […]
Title: The Counterparty to Chinese Business: The Upper Yangtze Steam Navigation Scheme and the Opening of Chungking Speaker: Dr. Zigui Li (Sun Yat-sen University) Date/Time: March 21, 2025 (Fri) 09:00-10:00 […]
Title: Brokering Capitalism in Maoist China Speaker: Dr. Adam Frost (Copenhagen Business School) Date/Time: February 14, 2025 (Fri) 21:00-22:00 HKT (Feb 14, 2025 | 14:00-15:00 CET) Venue: Via Zoom Language: […]
Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.
Capitalism is a remarkable system which has re-invented itself throughout history. It has proved capable of co-existing with entirely different political and economic contexts.
Madmen in Shanghai: A Social History of Advertising in Modern China (1914–1956) provides a novel perspective on the emergence of Chinese consumer society through an extensive historical investigation of the advertising industry in pre-Communist China.
From 1940 to 1945, the United States relied heavily on a steady stream of Chinese tungsten ore, hog bristles,
19世紀後期，東亞各國陸續引入近代企業經營模式，以及與之相配合的資本主義商業倫理、經營策略及商業法律，開啓了前所未有的近代市場經濟格局。
What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the
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China’s large and valuable pre-1949 cattle trade is effectively invisible to historians ...
Trade has historically driven Taiwan’s economic growth, with cane sugar dominating exports from the 1620s to the 1960s. ...
