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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240530T210000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240530T210000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240602T192650Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating legacy: The intergenerational transmission of reproduction and human capital in Ming–Qing Chinese families
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/celebrating-legacy-the-intergenerational-transmission-of-reproduction-and-human-capital-in-ming-qing-chinese-families/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240523T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240523T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240602T193907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103220Z
UID:81532-1716480000-1716480000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Secular Decline in Modern China? Wage Evidence from Hydraulic Constructions and Rural Casual Work in Suzhou and Shanghai
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/secular-decline-in-modern-china-wage-evidence-from-hydraulic-constructions-and-rural-casual-work-in-suzhou-and-shanghai/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240425T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240425T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240602T222709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103222Z
UID:81611-1714060800-1714060800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Going Native: Foreign Firms’ Responses to Domestic Boycotts
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/going-native-foreign-firms-responses-to-domestic-boycotts/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240411T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240411T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240602T225316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103221Z
UID:81579-1712851200-1712851200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:War and the Origins of Chinese Civilization
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/war-and-the-origins-of-chinese-civilization/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240321T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240321T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240603T000852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103224Z
UID:81704-1711036800-1711036800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Empire Project: Trade Policy in Interwar Canada
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-empire-project-trade-policy-in-interwar-canada/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240229T220000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240229T220000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240603T004944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103227Z
UID:81788-1709244000-1709244000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The State Civilian Granary System and Price Stability\, 1741-1856
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-state-civilian-granary-system-and-price-stability-1741-1856/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240222T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240222T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240603T011447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103227Z
UID:81800-1708617600-1708617600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Impact of the 1901 Land Title Deed Act on Bangkok’s Urban Land Market
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-impact-of-the-1901-land-title-deed-act-on-bangkoks-urban-land-market/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240208T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20240208T100000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240603T173634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103228Z
UID:81826-1707386400-1707386400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Fiscal Innovation and the Origins of Paper Currency in Song China (960-1276)
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/fiscal-innovation-and-the-origins-of-paper-currency-in-song-china-960-1276/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231207T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231207T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240604T004000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103231Z
UID:81959-1701964800-1701964800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Glorious Revolution That Wasn’t: Rural Elite Conflict and Demand for Democratization
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-glorious-revolution-that-wasnt-rural-elite-conflict-and-demand-for-democratization/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231116T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20231116T140000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240610T233604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103234Z
UID:83265-1700136000-1700143200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Labor Coercion and Trade: Evidence from Colonial Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/labor-coercion-and-trade-evidence-from-colonial-indonesia/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230914T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230914T120000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T180142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103238Z
UID:83429-1694692800-1694692800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:New Crops and Old States: Economic Productivity and State Capacity in Historical China
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/new-crops-and-old-states-economic-productivity-and-state-capacity-in-historical-china/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230907T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230907T100000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T181502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103238Z
UID:83430-1694080800-1694080800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Intergenerational Mobility of Daughters and Marital Sorting: New Evidence from Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/intergenerational-mobility-of-daughters-and-marital-sorting-new-evidence-from-imperial-china/
LOCATION:Zoom\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230518T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230518T120000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T190747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103240Z
UID:83480-1684411200-1684411200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Pre-modern Growth\, Industrialization and Biological Living Standards of Japan and Korea\, 1840 – 2023
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/pre-modern-growth-industrialization-and-biological-living-standards-of-japan-and-korea-1840-2023/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230511T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230511T140000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T194307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103241Z
UID:83507-1683808200-1683813600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Conflict and Gender Norms: Evidence from India
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/conflict-and-gender-norms-evidence-from-india/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230428T120000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230428T120000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T214929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103242Z
UID:83538-1682683200-1682683200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in Late 19th Century China and Japan
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ideology-and-economic-change-the-contrasting-paths-to-the-modern-economy-in-late-19th-century-china-and-japan/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230427T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230427T140000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T215945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103241Z
UID:83553-1682598600-1682604000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Ideas Mobilize People: The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/ideas-mobilize-people-the-di%ef%ac%80usion-of-communist-ideology-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230420T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230420T100000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T223616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103243Z
UID:83594-1681984800-1681984800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Uses (and Limitations) of Quantitative Prosopography for Tang and Song History
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-uses-and-limitations-of-quantitative-prosopography-for-tang-and-song-history/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230413T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230413T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T225519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103244Z
UID:83617-1681401600-1681401600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Basins and Regions in the Spatial Process of the Western Zhou Feudal States
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/basins-and-regions-in-the-spatial-process-of-the-western-zhou-feudal-states/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230330T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230330T090000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T232048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103245Z
UID:83635-1680166800-1680166800@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:An Evolutionary Approach to the History of Useful Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/an-evolutionary-approach-to-the-history-of-useful-knowledge/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230323T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230323T140000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240611T234224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103247Z
UID:83657-1679574600-1679580000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:State Capacity\, Security\, and Welfare in the Ancient Middle East and China\, 12\,000 – 400 BCE.
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/state-capacity-security-and-welfare-in-the-ancient-middle-east-and-china-12000-400-bce/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230309T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230309T140000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240612T011252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103248Z
UID:83718-1678365000-1678370400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Reform\, Rails\, and Rice: Political Railroads and Local Development in Thailand
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/reform-rails-and-rice-political-railroads-and-local-development-in-thailand/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230216T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230216T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240612T173704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103250Z
UID:83745-1676563200-1676563200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Art in Times of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/art-in-times-of-crisis/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221208T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221208T100000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240613T174916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103251Z
UID:83849-1670493600-1670493600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Herding\, Warfare\, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/herding-warfare-and-a-culture-of-honor-global-evidence/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221201T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221201T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240613T184207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103252Z
UID:83872-1669910400-1669910400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Occupational Structure of Late Imperial China\, 1734 – 1898
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-occupational-structure-of-late-imperial-china-1734-1898/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221117T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221117T090000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240613T195003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103253Z
UID:83905-1668675600-1668675600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Qing Officialdom: Insights from Historical Big Data
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/qing-officialdom-insights-from-historical-big-data/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221027T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221027T090000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240613T220154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103254Z
UID:83928-1666861200-1666861200@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Rise and Fall of Imperial China
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-rise-and-fall-of-imperial-china/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221020T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221020T090000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240613T224642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103304Z
UID:83952-1666256400-1666256400@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Journey of Humanity: The Origin of Wealth and Inequality
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-journey-of-humanity-the-origin-of-wealth-and-inequality/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221006T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221006T160000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240613T225615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103305Z
UID:83975-1665072000-1665072000@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:唐代中國是否出現過牡丹泡沫? (“Peony Bubble” in the Tang Dynasty)
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/%e5%94%90%e4%bb%a3%e4%b8%ad%e5%9c%8b%e6%98%af%e5%90%a6%e5%87%ba%e7%8f%be%e9%81%8e%e7%89%a1%e4%b8%b9%e6%b3%a1%e6%b2%ab-peony-bubble-in-the-tang-dynasty/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220929T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220929T100000
DTSTAMP:20261010T065151
CREATED:20240613T230228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103305Z
UID:83982-1664445600-1664445600@ihss.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Strengthening State Capacity: Postal Reform and Innovation during the Gilded Age
DESCRIPTION:DESCRIPTIONXinhao Li\, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School\, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936. He collects import values for Chinese inland prefectures from the annual trade reports at each port of the Chinese Maritime Customs. Matching the imports with industrial establishments at the prefecture level\, he finds that prefectures with greater import values had more industrial firms established thereafter. For causal identification\, he exploits the role of the silver-copper exchange ratio in shifting the relative price of foreign goods in the domestic market and construct a shift-share-like instrument for the import distribution. Through decomposing the imports by sectors\, he finds that high-tech manufactures are more beneficial to industrial development relative to low-tech ones. The high-tech manufacturers were also associated with a higher level of public interest in manufacturing and scientific knowledge. During this Quantitative History Doctoral Research Webinar\, he will further provide evidence that import trade facilitated China’s industrialization by empowering Chinese business elites as pioneering industrialists.
URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/strengthening-state-capacity-postal-reform-and-innovation-during-the-gilded-age/
CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series
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