21 August
10.45am-11.15am: Registration
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
11.15am: Welcome
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Panel 1: 11.30am-1pm:
Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Speakers:
Otis Edwards (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconfiguring Trade: London Finance, Lintin Island, and the Transformation of the Opium Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Canton
Xiaoyu Gao (University of Chicago) – Empire of Copper: British and American Global Trade, Chilean Copper, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System (1800-1862)
William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – The ‘Circle of Distress’: Mapping the Spread of the Late-Qing Financial Crisis of the 1880s
Panel 2: 2pm-3.30pm:
Chair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Speakers:
Yuan Weipeng (Shanghai Jiaotong University) – 晚清政府采购制度与汉冶萍公司
Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Reuters and the Evolving News Telegram Distribution System in Late Qing Shanghai
Wang Zilong (The University of Tokyo) – State Control or Managerial Autonomy? The Long-Term Evolution of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, 1872–2022
22 August
Panel 3: 9.30am-11am
Chair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Speakers:
Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong) – Shenbao, Advertisements and Electrical Modernity in Shanghai, 1912-1937
Debin Ma (Tsinghua University) – Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Issuance of Banknotes in Republican China, 1915–1945
Shinya Oishida (Rikkyo University) – Postal Savings Bank in Republican China: In Comparison with Commercial Banking Business
Panel 4: 11.30am – 1pm
Chair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Speakers:
Billy K. L. So (The University of Hong Kong) & Sufumi So (The University of Hong Kong) – Modern Corporation: Conceptual Excursions, and the China Exception?
Peter E. Hamilton (University of Bristol) – China’s First Management Consultants in the Nanjing Decade
Ning Jennifer Chang (Academia Sinica) – Managing Volunteer Associations in Modern China: The Case of the Shanghai Race Club, 1850-1950
2.30pm: Transportation to Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Archives
3pm-4.30pm: Visit to Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Archives (registered attendees only)
23 August
Panel 5: 9.30am – 11.30am
Chair: Debin Ma (Tsinghua University)
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Speakers:
Niu Hao (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) – OEM Collaboration: A Study on the Production and Distribution of Indanthrene Fabric in the Republic of China
Brett Sheehan (University of Southern California) – Balancing strangers and friends: Curating shareholder composition by the Dongya Corporation, 1932–1950
Huangfu Qiushi (Fudan University) – Pirnie, Lee & Company and the Post-war Sino-U.S. Economic Cooperation on the Local Level (1946–48)
Koji Hirata (Monash University) – From Grain Exporter to Importer: Food Crisis, Trade Realignment, and China’s Turn to the Capitalist World, 1960–1965
Panel 6: 1pm – 3pm
Chair: Brett Sheehan (University of Southern California)
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Speakers:
Elizabeth Sinn (The University of Hong Kong) – Death by American protectionism? The Life and Times of a Hong Kong Chinese Company – the On Tai Marine Insurance Company (1877–1899)
Sheyla S. Zandonai (University of Macau) – Pledging, Betting, Building: The History of Modern Pawnshops in Macau
Dong Yan (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) – From Local Currency to Foreign Exchange: Reshaping the Hong Kong Dollar in 1950s Guangdong
Kelvin Chan (University of Bristol) – Made in Hong Kong: Eu Yan Sang and Chinese Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia
Roundtable: Future Avenues for Research: 3.30pm-4.30pm
Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: Faculty Board Room (4.36), Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus
Takeshi Hamashita (Toyo Bunko), John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong), Tomoko Shiroyama (The University of Tokyo)
4.30pm-5pm: Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications)
Chairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
