Table of Contents Abstract Historians know very little about the movements of silver within China for all of the Qing dynasty and yet some understanding of them is crucial […]
Conference Program (PDF version with full abstracts) Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas 24 June 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial […]
Table of Contents Description Maanik Nath of Utrecht University and his co-author investigate the impact of public investments on agricultural incomes across colonial India. Using new data in a […]
Event Highlights What can stone tools tell us about the rise of complex societies? Did iron technology strengthen states through farming, warfare or both? How might bronze inscriptions, burial goods, […]
Description In this Quantitative History hybrid lecture, Li Yang of the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) will present new evidence on the divergence in economic growth between China […]
Description During the first millennium of imperial history, East Asian empires expanded into the semi-arid zones of Inner Asia and established agricultural settlements to sustain frontier garrisons. Under the tuntian […]
ABSTRACT Economic planning in socialist China required the local planners to gather comprehensive information within their jurisdiction on one hand and implement centrally issued plan on the other. The dual […]
Description While good ideas can emerge anywhere, it takes a community to develop and disseminate them. In this Quantitative History webinar, David de la Croix of UCLouvain will reconstruct how […]
Description Plague was the most lethal disease in early modern England. However, there is limited large-scale quantitative evidence about the factors that allowed plague to spread between settlements. In this […]
ABSTRACT Daoist priests in central and northern Hunan Province (PRC), an area known as Plum Mountain (Meishan 梅山), are the custodians of many local traditions. Among them is an ancient […]
DESCRIPTION In this Quantitative History Webinar, Lukas Rosenberger of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich will introduce a new approach to understanding technological progress and economic growth during the Industrial Revolution by combining modern […]
ABSTRACT This talk investigates how local constructions of the “national fengshui master” (guoshi 國師) reshaped geomantic discourse in the Ming in ways that indirectly reinforced the imperial model of centralized […]
BRIEF INTRODUCTION Though he died 35 years ago, the Harvard historian John Fairbank remains alive through the influence of his ideas, students and image as a major figure in US-China […]
ABSTRACT In the post-2020 era, South America has become a key arena for Chinese global enterprise, with Chinese goods and services achieving unprecedented popularity. This presentation argues that the groundwork […]
ABSTRACTSuccessful entrepreneurs learn to grow and adapt to different situations and environments as they build their start-ups in an evolving world. Leadership is important in bringing together different parties with […]
DESCRIPTION In this Quantitative History Webinar, Patrick Fitzsimmons of the University of Pennsylvania will present a theory of how lowering the cost of doing violence around 1200 BCE contributed to political fragmentation across […]
ABSTRACTThis study examines how stone-grinding technology accelerated the growth of complex societies in Neolithic China (8000–2000 BCE) primarily through the war channel rather than the productivity channel. Utilizing data from […]
BRIEF INTRODUCTIONAn acclaimed historian’s bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now […]
ABSTRACTFamily offices are not a one-size-fits-all solution. Their structure and strategy are deeply influenced by two powerful forces: the generation of wealth they serve and the geographic culture they emerge […]
ABSTRACTAcross cultures and centuries, emotions have been expressed, encoded, and preserved in both texts and images. Recent advances in affective computing now offer new opportunities to study these emotional traces […]
DESCRIPTION Using a genealogical database of 447,000 people in England 1600-2025, as well as 1.7 million marriage records 1837-2021, Professor Gregory Clark of the University of Southern Denmark and his […]
