This talk will place the famous 1619 voyage to Virginia within the context of the larger Iberian (i.e. Spanish and Portuguese) world slave system of which it was essentially an extension ...
In this Quantitative History Webinar, the Areas of Excellence (AoE) project team member Cameron Campbell of HKUST ...
This talk presents some of the preliminary ideas and findings of Dr. Ha Guangtian’s ongoing project which examines the role of multi-racial ...
The trading voyages to the Pearl River delta made by British, American and European ships in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
China was the world’s leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again ...
This event is organized by the Center on Religion and the Global East, Purdue University and ...
From the perspective of comparative institutional analysis, Zhou examines historical origins of Chinese bureaucracy and ...
What are the keys to human progress? In the last two hundred years, stunning advances in health ...
This paper examines how intellectual culture affects modern economic growth. The research context is historical China ...
During the Qing, central Shanxi was home to millions of traveling merchants who established the empire’s most powerful business network ...
Speculative bubbles and crises have accompanied financial markets since their beginning or even earlier ...
Guo Xu of Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley and his co-author use newly digitized records from the U.S. Post Office to ...
This ethnographic study uses long-term intensive fieldwork on charitable organisations to explore how e-commerce platforms change ...
Iran and China’s relationship is following a long tradition of exchanges that can be traced back to ancient times ...
By tracing the history of Yudahua from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century ...
China today seems caught in a contradiction: a capitalist state led by a Communist party...
This talk analyzes how divine magic power is reconfigured in the urban setting. The speaker will discuss how a spirit medium ...
In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882 – 1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of ...
During the first half of the twentieth century, all but a handful of intrepid Han Chinese practitioners of ...
This talk examines the Hong Kong-China maritime border since 1949. It focuses on the oyster producing communities in the tidelands of the Pearl River Estuary ...
This is an event organized by the CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life ...
Queer feminist writing — on lived experiences of gender, race, and queerness — resists mainstream understandings of ...
In the early 1960s, a religious ritual — ghost opera — swept across China ...
In this talk, the speaker will present a total of four case studies to analyse the transformations and hidden discourses of ...
