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SUMMARY:Transnational Networks of Human Resources and Knowledge in East Asia: A Case Study of Taiwan Merchant Wang Xuenong (1870–1915) and His Trading Company
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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/transnational-networks-of-human-resources-and-knowledge-in-east-asia-a-case-study-of-taiwan-merchant-wang-xuenong-1870-1915-and-his-trading-company/
CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar
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SUMMARY:Tales from a Small North China Commercial Town
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240315T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240315T180000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240603T002625Z
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SUMMARY:The Making of China’s Post Office: Sovereignty\, Modernization\, and the Connection of a Nation
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231124T090000
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DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240610T231511Z
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SUMMARY:Forgotten Pioneer: The On Tai Insurance Company Limited of Hong Kong (1877-1900)
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231117T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231117T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240610T232503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103233Z
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SUMMARY:New Perspectives on the Qing: Using Popular Sources\, Data Analysis\, and Accounting to Reconstruct Traditional Economic Practices
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T180000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20231017T170012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T060440Z
UID:83301-1697623200-1697652000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Innovating Chinese Business History
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231018T180000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20231017T165938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T061907Z
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SUMMARY:Innovating Chinese Business History
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230922T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230922T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240611T175409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103237Z
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SUMMARY:The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230512T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230512T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240611T193246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103241Z
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SUMMARY:Weaving a Bamboo Curtain: Managing Foreign Exchange in the early PRC\, 1949 – 1957
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230421T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230421T200000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230310T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230310T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230120T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230120T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240612T234825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103250Z
UID:83787-1674205200-1674208800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Engendered Enterprises: Women and Business in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221202T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221202T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221111T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221111T173000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221007T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221007T140000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220909T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220909T140000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240613T235343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103306Z
UID:84004-1662726600-1662732000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220610T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220610T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240613T235702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103306Z
UID:84011-1654851600-1654855200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220513T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220513T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240614T000757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103307Z
UID:84025-1652432400-1652436000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Recharging China in War and Revolution\, 1882 – 1955
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240722T214805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103325Z
UID:85533-1635498000-1635501600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240722T220602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103326Z
UID:85556-1634288400-1634292000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
CREATED:20240722T221935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z
UID:85580-1632474000-1632477600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution
DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T100000
DTSTAMP:20261112T155512
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:ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction\, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring foreign investment into postwar China. The International Business Conference in November 1944 first alerted the Chinese business community to the emerging possibility of mobilizing American capital to fuel China’s postwar rebuilding. While China Industries Company embodied the efforts of Chen Kwang Pu and other Chinese bankers to attract American private capital\, leading industrialists such as Fan Hsu-tung and Lu Tso Fu successfully secured a US$16 million loan from the Export–Import Bank of the United States for Yongli Chemical Industries. Finally\, Pei Tsuyee\, former Governor of the Central Bank of China\, led the Nationalist Government’s Technical Mission that helped catalyze the passage of the 1948 American Aid to China Act\, ultimately negotiating economic assistance totaling US$338 million. Revisiting these diverse initiatives to introduce American capital not only reveals the intricate relationships underpinning China’s postwar economic reconstruction between state and enterprise\, foreign and domestic capital\, and finance and industry\, but also unveils the role of Chinese businessmen and their strategic engagement with foreign capital\, thus nuancing the existing narrative of postwar China’s economy that focuses on American economic expansion and the Nationalist government’s command economy policies. ABOUT THE SPEAKERHuangfu Qiushi is an associate professor in the History Department of Fudan University. Her dissertation focused on the responses of China’s cigarette market to the Great Depression during the 1930s\, from the perspectives of different market actors\, and in both indigenous and international contexts. She is the author of the book The Choices in Crisis: The Chinese Cigarette Market during the Nanjing Decade (Shanghai Orient Publishing Center\, 2014). Her current research interests include the economic intelligence activities of the U.S. Government and in Republican China\, and the participation of U.S. capital in China’s post-war reconstruction. ABOUT THE SERIESThis 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
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