BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//IHSS - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:IHSS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ihss.hku.hk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for IHSS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:HKT DTSTART:20210101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240426T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240426T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240602T222153Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103222Z UID:81600-1714122000-1714125600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Tales from a Small North China Commercial Town DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/tales-from-a-small-north-china-commercial-town/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20240426_CBH_Tales-from-a-Small-North-China-Commercial-Town_Banner-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240315T170000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240315T180000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240603T002625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103225Z UID:81736-1710522000-1710525600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty\, Modernization\, and the Connection of a Nation DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-making-of-chinas-post-office-sovereignty-modernization-and-the-connection-of-a-nation/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20231124_CBH_Making-of-China-Post-Office-Poster_Banner-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231124T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231124T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240610T231511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103232Z UID:83235-1700816400-1700820000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Forgotten Pioneer: The On Tai Insurance Company Limited of Hong Kong (1877-1900) DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/forgotten-pioneer-the-on-tai-insurance-company-limited-of-hong-kong-1877-1900/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/20231124_CBH_Forgotten-Pioneer_Banner-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231117T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231117T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240610T232503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103233Z UID:83255-1700211600-1700215200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:New Perspectives on the Qing: Using Popular Sources\, Data Analysis\, and Accounting to Reconstruct Traditional Economic Practices DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/new-perspectives-on-the-qing-using-popular-sources-data-analysis-and-accounting-to-reconstruct-traditional-economic-practices/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rolling-banner_20231117-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T180000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20231017T170012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T060440Z UID:83301-1697623200-1697652000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Innovating Chinese Business History DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/innovating-chinese-business-history/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rolling-banner_Chinese-Merchants_HiRes-Artwork-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T180000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20231017T165938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T061907Z UID:83311-1697623200-1697652000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Innovating Chinese Business History DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/innovating-chinese-business-history-2/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rolling-banner_Chinese-Merchants_HiRes-Artwork-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230922T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230922T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240611T175409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103237Z UID:83413-1695373200-1695376800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-collapse-of-nationalist-china-how-chiang-kai-shek-lost-chinas-civil-war/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rolling-banner_20230922-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230512T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230512T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240611T193246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103241Z UID:83500-1683885600-1683885600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Weaving a Bamboo Curtain: Managing Foreign Exchange in the early PRC\, 1949 – 1957 DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/weaving-a-bamboo-curtain-managing-foreign-exchange-in-the-early-prc-1949-1957/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230421T190000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230421T200000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240611T223017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103243Z UID:83586-1682103600-1682107200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:China Engineers\, Ltd.\, a Hybrid Company in Wartime China\, 1937 – 1945 DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/china-engineers-ltd-a-hybrid-company-in-wartime-china-1937-1945/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230310T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230310T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240612T010418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103248Z UID:83711-1678438800-1678442400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-opium-business-a-history-of-crime-and-capitalism-in-maritime-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230120T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230120T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240612T234825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103250Z UID:83787-1674205200-1674208800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Engendered Enterprises: Women and Business in Modern China DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/engendered-enterprises-women-and-business-in-modern-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221202T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221202T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240613T183542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103252Z UID:83865-1669971600-1669975200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Project Assemblages: Identity Realignment in the Construction Industry in China-Africa Encounters DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/project-assemblages-identity-realignment-in-the-construction-industry-in-china-africa-encounters/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221111T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221111T173000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240613T215638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103254Z UID:83920-1668184200-1668187800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Networks and the Management of Risk in the China Trade during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/networks-and-the-management-of-risk-in-the-china-trade-during-the-eighteenth-and-early-nineteenth-centuries/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221007T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221007T140000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240613T225301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103305Z UID:83968-1665145800-1665151200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Silver Valley: The Merchant Society of Central Shanxi in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/silver-valley-the-merchant-society-of-central-shanxi-in-the-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220909T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220909T140000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240613T235343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103306Z UID:84004-1662726600-1662732000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-yudahua-business-group-in-chinas-early-industrialization/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220610T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220610T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240613T235702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103306Z UID:84011-1654851600-1654855200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/market-maoists-the-communist-origins-of-chinas-capitalist-ascent/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220513T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220513T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240614T000757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103307Z UID:84025-1652432400-1652436000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Recharging China in War and Revolution\, 1882 – 1955 DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/recharging-china-in-war-and-revolution-1882-1955/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220408T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220408T173000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240614T004338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103309Z UID:84087-1649435400-1649439000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:‘I am not now\, that which I have been’: A global-microhistory of Augustine Heard & Company DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/i-am-not-now-that-which-i-have-been-a-global-microhistory-of-augustine-heard-company/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220304T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220304T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240614T012707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z UID:84127-1646384400-1646388000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Green Gold and Paper Gold: Financing the Chinese-American Tea Trade before the Opium War DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/green-gold-and-paper-gold-financing-the-chinese-american-tea-trade-before-the-opium-war/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220204T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220204T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240614T021101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z UID:84151-1643965200-1643968800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Middling Elites: Middle Managers and Bank Professionals at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist Revolution DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/middling-elites-middle-managers-and-bank-professionals-at-the-shanghai-bank-of-china-on-the-eve-of-the-communist-revolution/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211210T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211210T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240616T181123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103320Z UID:84173-1639126800-1639130400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:An American Salesman in China: Local Markets\, Global Business\, and Competition in Marketing Cigarettes during the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/an-american-salesman-in-china-local-markets-global-business-and-competition-in-marketing-cigarettes-during-the-1920s/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240722T184519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103324Z UID:85440-1636707600-1636711200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:‘Scientific’ Management in Republican Shanghai: American-Returned Students and the Concept of Efficiency DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/scientific-management-in-republican-shanghai-american-returned-students-and-the-concept-of-efficiency/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240722T214805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103325Z UID:85533-1635498000-1635501600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/maos-third-front-the-militarization-of-cold-war-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240722T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103326Z UID:85556-1634288400-1634292000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/timber-and-forestry-in-qing-china-sustaining-the-market/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240722T221935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z UID:85580-1632474000-1632477600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/unending-capitalism-how-consumerism-negated-chinas-communist-revolution/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240722T235707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85655-1624006800-1624010400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Factories and China’s Special Century: A Micro-History of Chinese Industrialization in the Long Twentieth Century DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/factories-and-chinas-special-century-a-micro-history-of-chinese-industrialization-in-the-long-twentieth-century/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240723T002840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85662-1621587600-1621591200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking\, State\, and Family\, 1720 – 1910 DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chinese-hinterland-capitalism-and-shanxi-piaohao-banking-state-and-family-1720-1910/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240723T015427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103334Z UID:85735-1619168400-1619172000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Corporate Conquests: Business\, the State\, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/corporate-conquests-business-the-state-and-the-origins-of-ethnic-inequality-in-southwest-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T100000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240723T173709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103334Z UID:85753-1616749200-1616752800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Industrial Craft: A Global History of Chinese Cotton Mills\, 1877 – 1937 DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/industrial-craft-a-global-history-of-chinese-cotton-mills-1877-1937/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210226T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210226T140000 DTSTAMP:20261101T192844 CREATED:20240723T180845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103336Z UID:85795-1614342600-1614348000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Vice City: Hong Kong in the Anglo-American War on Drugs\, 1970 – 1979 DESCRIPTION:Abstract \n \n \n \n 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. Building on the long-term techno-social collaboration among themselves\, these shipping groups had developed institutions to collectively negotiate their rights to trade\, navigation security\, and infrastructural maintenance at crucial sites along the Upper Yangzi River by the early nineteenth century. How did these institutions transform from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, as the Upper Yangzi shipping industry went through multifaceted technological and business transitions? This talk chronicles the reorganization of the techno-social networks among the Upper Yangzi shipping groups from roughly 1850 to 1937 against the backdrop of the steam revolution\, the inland extension of global economic interactions\, and early industrialization. Bringing together multi-lingual archives\, the talk traces how the agents associated with foreign imperial powers and Chinese regimes tried to institutionally incorporate the experiential knowledge and networks of local shipping groups to sustain both economic circulation and geopolitical contestation. It also reconstructs how local shipping groups leveraged the discourses of professionalization\, industrialization\, and nationalism to transfer their techno-social perspectives\, hence actively shaping the new navigation infrastructure along the Upper Yangzi. More broadly\, this talk invites conversations on how to write grassroots mobility back to the histories of global economic circulation and geopolitical transition during the modern period. \n \n \n \n About the Speaker \n \n \n \n Yiying Pan is Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She works on the histories of grassroots-level mobility\, infrastructure\, and the environment\, with a particular focus on the Upper Yangzi Region. Her works have appeared in Late Imperial China\, International Journal of Asian Studies\,  Remapping\, and Historical Inquiry. \n \n \n \n About the Series \n \n \n \n This webinar series features the newest research on the history of Chinese business and entrepreneurship. If you have any questions about this webinar series\, would like to give a talk\, or would like to be removed from this mailing list\, please contact Professor John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Professor Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk). URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/vice-city-hong-kong-in-the-anglo-american-war-on-drugs-1970-1979/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR