BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//IHSS - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:IHSS X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ihss.hku.hk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for IHSS REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:HKT DTSTART:20160101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161116T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161116T160000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T004818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102854Z UID:87521-1479312000-1479312000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Making Space for Engineering Education: the South China Institute of Engineering DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/making-space-for-engineering-education-the-south-china-institute-of-engineering/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161115T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161115T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T005200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102854Z UID:87528-1479211200-1479214800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Energy Futures and City Life DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/energy-futures-and-city-life/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161101T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161101T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T010212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102855Z UID:87543-1478001600-1478005200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Let There Be Light: China Light & Power and the Manufacture of “Modern” Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/let-there-be-light-china-light-power-and-the-manufacture-of-modern-hong-kong/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161025T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161025T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T011919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102855Z UID:87549-1477396800-1477400400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Religion and Pluralism: Modes of Religious Authority and Political Contestation in Urban Shanghai Funerals DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/religion-and-pluralism-modes-of-religious-authority-and-political-contestation-in-urban-shanghai-funerals/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161020T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161020T173000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T012253Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102856Z UID:87555-1476979200-1476984600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:To Live for Food (食為天) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/to-live-for-food-%e9%a3%9f%e7%82%ba%e5%a4%a9/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161012T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161012T160000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T175829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102857Z UID:87584-1476288000-1476288000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Paradox of Moving Labor: Workers in the Films of Jia Zhangke DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-paradox-of-moving-labor-workers-in-the-films-of-jia-zhangke/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161011T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161011T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T014259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102857Z UID:87564-1476187200-1476190800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Monumentality of Linear Landscape DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-monumentality-of-linear-landscape/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161006T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20161006T180000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T175150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102857Z UID:87570-1475771400-1475776800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Medical Debates and Medical Philology in Tokugawa Japan DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/sinophiles-and-sinophobes-medical-debates-and-medical-philology-in-tokugawa-japan/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/lecture-by-professor-benjamin-a-elman-20161006-1920x1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160927T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160927T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T180259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102858Z UID:87593-1474977600-1474981200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Trusting Big Data? A Critique from Confucian Trust DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/trusting-big-data-a-critique-from-confucian-trust/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160922T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160922T173000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T180714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102858Z UID:87599-1474560000-1474565400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Planting for Life (種植人生) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/planting-for-life-%e7%a8%ae%e6%a4%8d%e4%ba%ba%e7%94%9f/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160914T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160914T160000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T181343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102858Z UID:87609-1473868800-1473868800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:When the Psycho-Boom Meets the Startup Frenzy: Therapist-Entrepreneurs and Their Remaking of the Psychotherapy Scene in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/when-the-psycho-boom-meets-the-startup-frenzy-therapist-entrepreneurs-and-their-remaking-of-the-psychotherapy-scene-in-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160913T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160913T160000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T181726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102859Z UID:87616-1473778800-1473782400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Dejiaohui and the Construction and Development of Its Transnational Network between Chao-Shan Region\, Hong Kong\, Thailand\, Singapore and Malaysia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-dejiaohui-and-the-construction-and-development-of-its-transnational-network-between-chao-shan-region-hong-kong-thailand-singapore-and-malaysia/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160912T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160912T140000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T182212Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102859Z UID:87625-1473683400-1473688800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Rockefeller Philanthropy and China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/rockefeller-philanthropy-and-china/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160909T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160909T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T183210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102859Z UID:87638-1473422400-1473426000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Anthropological Study of Religion in China: Contexts\, Collaborations\, Debates\, and Trends DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-anthropological-study-of-religion-in-china-contexts-collaborations-debates-and-trends/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160906T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160906T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T185624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102900Z UID:87648-1473163200-1473166800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Small Property Right Housing Development in China: Towards a Renewed Understanding of Urban Villages DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/small-property-right-housing-development-in-china-towards-a-renewed-understanding-of-urban-villages/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160818T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160818T163000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T232005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102900Z UID:87672-1471537800-1471537800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Canton’s India Connections: A Dialogue with Amitav Ghosh DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/cantons-india-connections-a-dialogue-with-amitav-ghosh/ LOCATION:Theatre P3\, LG1 Floor\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160809 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T221926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102900Z UID:87655-1470009600-1470700799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Humanities\, Social Sciences and Medicine in East Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/humanities-social-sciences-and-medicine-in-east-asia-interdisciplinary-approaches/ CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/banner-advanced-training-workshop-humanities-social-sciences-and-medicine-in-east-asia-interdisciplinary-approaches-768x256-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160620T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160620T180000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T233112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102832Z UID:87685-1466440200-1466445600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Chao Yuen Ren and the Modern Soundscape of Republican China (1912 – 1937) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chao-yuen-ren-and-the-modern-soundscape-of-republican-china-1912-1937/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS,IHSS Public Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160610T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160610T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240729T005708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102855Z UID:87534-1465560000-1465563600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Urban Restructuring and Temple Agency — the Case Studies of Han Buddhist Temples in Shanghai DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/urban-restructuring-and-temple-agency-the-case-studies-of-han-buddhist-temples-in-shanghai/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160606T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160606T180000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T004542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102901Z UID:87695-1465230600-1465236000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Hong Kong in China Studies DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/hong-kong-in-china-studies/ LOCATION:CRT 4.36\, 4/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trialogue-by-professor-poshek-fu-professor-stephen-chu-and-professor-john-carroll-20160606-960x742-nr9ywk8aa522t2bz7ml33ld2axd1tzhqi7a0b73njw.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160601T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160601T180000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T005826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102901Z UID:87706-1464798600-1464804000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:China in the World DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/china-in-the-world/ LOCATION:CRT 4.36\, 4/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/critical-dialogues-about-china-by-professor-arif-dirlik-and-professor-alka-acharya-20160601-960x742-nr9ywdneyat2jslja1qp450u589hc3rm5aply9derg.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160520T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160520T180000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T011504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102901Z UID:87717-1463761800-1463767200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Ethnic Studies in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ethnic-studies-in-china/ LOCATION:CRT 4.36\, 4/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/dialogue-with-professor-mark-c-elliott-and-professor-xiaomeng-liu-20160520-960x742-nr9ywcpkrgrs86mwfjc2jn9djue44envt624gzesxo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160429T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160429T180000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T012654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102902Z UID:87730-1461947400-1461952800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:War Memories in China Studies DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/war-memories-in-china-studies/ LOCATION:CRT 4.36\, 4/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160501 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T013240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102902Z UID:87737-1461715200-1462060799@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:InterAsian Connections V: Seoul (2016) DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/interasian-connections-v-seoul-2016/ LOCATION:Asia Center\, Seoul National University\, Korea\, Korea\, Republic of CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160426T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160426T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T174208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102902Z UID:87751-1461672000-1461675600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Performing the Nation\, Performing the Market: Hybrid Practices and Negotiated Meanings of Chinese Rural Teachers DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/performing-the-nation-performing-the-market-hybrid-practices-and-negotiated-meanings-of-chinese-rural-teachers/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160419T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160419T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T174633Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102903Z UID:87758-1461067200-1461070800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Birth of a Religious Group: An Ethnographic Study of Confucian Congregation DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-birth-of-a-religious-group-an-ethnographic-study-of-confucian-congregation/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160414T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160414T163000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T175211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102832Z UID:87767-1460651400-1460651400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:A Costly Order: Labour Migration\, Commercial Intermediaries and Social Reordering in China DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/a-costly-order-labour-migration-commercial-intermediaries-and-social-reordering-in-china/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS,IHSS Public Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160412T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160412T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T180514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102903Z UID:87778-1460462400-1460466000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:One Country\, Two Economies: The Conflict Between Hong Kong Capitalism and Mainland Socialism DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/one-country-two-economies-the-conflict-between-hong-kong-capitalism-and-mainland-socialism/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160329T120000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160329T130000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T180938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102904Z UID:87785-1459252800-1459256400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Ethnic Tourism and the Recreation of “Reindeer Evenki Culture” in Inner Mongolia DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ethnic-tourism-and-the-recreation-of-reindeer-evenki-culture-in-inner-mongolia/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160323T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20160323T160000 DTSTAMP:20261103T051039 CREATED:20240730T181835Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102905Z UID:87792-1458748800-1458748800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Beginning of China’s Ethnicity Challenge DESCRIPTION:Language: English\n \n \n \n \n Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n February 6\, 2016\n \n \n \n \n (Tel) (852) 3917-5772\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Enquiry: ihss@hku.hk\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABSTRACT \n \n \n \n Risk events such as drought\, flood\, earthquakes\, crop failure\, and temperature deviations have dominated human history and caused violent conflicts and other forms of human misery. Before modern financial markets emerged and developed to offer impersonal risk-mitigating/risk-sharing instruments\, human societies developed non-market institutions to deal with risks and their consequences\, including social institutions such as the family\, kinship networks\, religious organizations\, native-place associations\, and mutual-help women’s organizations\, each coupled with a supportive set of cultural/behavorial norms. They also had to treat children and other relatives as personalized investment/insurance assets\, or use children’s marriage to spread risks. When human beings were the main instruments for mitigating risks\, individual rights and freedom were not allowable as freedom would have compromised their instrumental value. This is how Confucianism functioned to provide a better sense of security in traditional Chinese society. However\, after impersonal financial markets developed to replace human beings as risk-mitigating tools\, a different set of cultural/behavorial norms has emerged in which the individual is free. For example\, the Confucian restrictions placed on the individual are no longer necessary in a society with developed finance. This lecture\, given in Mandarin\, will highlight how institutions have evolved in human history to better deal with risks and how financial markets have freed the individual. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ABOUT THE SPEAKER \n \n \n \n Professor Zhiwu Chen is an expert on finance theory\, securities valuation\, emerging markets\, and China’s economy and capital markets. He is also Special-Term Visiting Professor at School of Economics at Peking University\, and Visiting Professor and HKU-AXA Senior Fellow on China’s Market Reform at The University of Hong Kong. Professor Chen started his career by publishing research papers in top economics and finance journals on topics related to financial markets and theories of asset pricing. Around 2001\, Professor Chen began to expand his research beyond mature markets by investigating market development and institution-building issues in the context of China’s transition process and other emerging markets. In 2013\, he started the annual Summer School for Quantitative History at Tsinghua University and continues to organize it at Peking University\, with the goal of promoting quantitative history research in China. Professor Chen is on the International Advisory Board of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)\, and a Chief Academic Advisor to two 10-episode CCTV documentary series\, “Wall Street” and“Money”. He is on the board of directors at PetroChina\, Bank of Communications\, and Noah Holdings. His work has been featured in newspapers and magazines in the United States\, Hong Kong\, China and other countries. He is a frequent contributor to media publications in China on topics of economic policy\, market development and legal reform. His list of books published in China includes: How Is Wealth Created? (2005)\, Media\, Law and Markets (2005)\, Why are the Chinese Industrious and Yet Not Rich (2008)\, Irrational Overconfidence (2008)\, The Logic of Finance (2009)\, 24 Wealth Lectures (2009)\, and Assessing China’s Economic Growth of the Past 30 Years (2010). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PHOTO HIGHLIGHTS \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Previous\n \n \n Next URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-beginning-of-chinas-ethnicity-challenge/ LOCATION:Room 201\, 2/F\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:IHSS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR