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:20110101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230310T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230310T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240612T010418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103248Z UID:83711-1678438800-1678442400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-opium-business-a-history-of-crime-and-capitalism-in-maritime-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230120T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20230120T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240612T234825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103250Z UID:83787-1674205200-1674208800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Engendered Enterprises: Women and Business in Modern China DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/engendered-enterprises-women-and-business-in-modern-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221202T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221202T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240613T183542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103252Z UID:83865-1669971600-1669975200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Project Assemblages: Identity Realignment in the Construction Industry in China-Africa Encounters DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/project-assemblages-identity-realignment-in-the-construction-industry-in-china-africa-encounters/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221111T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221111T173000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240613T215638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103254Z UID:83920-1668184200-1668187800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Networks and the Management of Risk in the China Trade during the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/networks-and-the-management-of-risk-in-the-china-trade-during-the-eighteenth-and-early-nineteenth-centuries/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221007T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20221007T140000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240613T225301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103305Z UID:83968-1665145800-1665151200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Silver Valley: The Merchant Society of Central Shanxi in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/silver-valley-the-merchant-society-of-central-shanxi-in-the-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-centuries/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220909T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220909T140000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240613T235343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103306Z UID:84004-1662726600-1662732000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Yudahua Business Group in China's Early Industrialization DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/the-yudahua-business-group-in-chinas-early-industrialization/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220610T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220610T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240613T235702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103306Z UID:84011-1654851600-1654855200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Market Maoists: The Communist Origins of China’s Capitalist Ascent DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/market-maoists-the-communist-origins-of-chinas-capitalist-ascent/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220513T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220513T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240614T000757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103307Z UID:84025-1652432400-1652436000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Recharging China in War and Revolution\, 1882 – 1955 DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/recharging-china-in-war-and-revolution-1882-1955/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220408T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220408T173000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240614T004338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103309Z UID:84087-1649435400-1649439000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:‘I am not now\, that which I have been’: A global-microhistory of Augustine Heard & Company DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/i-am-not-now-that-which-i-have-been-a-global-microhistory-of-augustine-heard-company/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220304T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220304T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240614T012707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z UID:84127-1646384400-1646388000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Green Gold and Paper Gold: Financing the Chinese-American Tea Trade before the Opium War DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/green-gold-and-paper-gold-financing-the-chinese-american-tea-trade-before-the-opium-war/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220204T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20220204T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240614T021101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103319Z UID:84151-1643965200-1643968800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Middling Elites: Middle Managers and Bank Professionals at the Shanghai Bank of China on the Eve of the Communist Revolution DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/middling-elites-middle-managers-and-bank-professionals-at-the-shanghai-bank-of-china-on-the-eve-of-the-communist-revolution/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211210T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211210T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240616T181123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103320Z UID:84173-1639126800-1639130400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:An American Salesman in China: Local Markets\, Global Business\, and Competition in Marketing Cigarettes during the 1920s DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/an-american-salesman-in-china-local-markets-global-business-and-competition-in-marketing-cigarettes-during-the-1920s/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211112T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240722T184519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103324Z UID:85440-1636707600-1636711200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:‘Scientific’ Management in Republican Shanghai: American-Returned Students and the Concept of Efficiency DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/scientific-management-in-republican-shanghai-american-returned-students-and-the-concept-of-efficiency/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211029T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240722T214805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103325Z UID:85533-1635498000-1635501600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Mao’s Third Front: The Militarization of Cold War China DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/maos-third-front-the-militarization-of-cold-war-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20211015T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240722T220602Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103326Z UID:85556-1634288400-1634292000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/timber-and-forestry-in-qing-china-sustaining-the-market/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210924T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240722T221935Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103327Z UID:85580-1632474000-1632477600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Unending Capitalism: How Consumerism Negated China’s Communist Revolution DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/unending-capitalism-how-consumerism-negated-chinas-communist-revolution/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210618T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240722T235707Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85655-1624006800-1624010400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Factories and China’s Special Century: A Micro-History of Chinese Industrialization in the Long Twentieth Century DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/factories-and-chinas-special-century-a-micro-history-of-chinese-industrialization-in-the-long-twentieth-century/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210521T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240723T002840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103330Z UID:85662-1621587600-1621591200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao: Banking\, State\, and Family\, 1720 – 1910 DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/chinese-hinterland-capitalism-and-shanxi-piaohao-banking-state-and-family-1720-1910/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210423T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240723T015427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103334Z UID:85735-1619168400-1619172000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Corporate Conquests: Business\, the State\, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/corporate-conquests-business-the-state-and-the-origins-of-ethnic-inequality-in-southwest-china/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210326T100000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240723T173709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103334Z UID:85753-1616749200-1616752800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Industrial Craft: A Global History of Chinese Cotton Mills\, 1877 – 1937 DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/industrial-craft-a-global-history-of-chinese-cotton-mills-1877-1937/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210226T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210226T140000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240723T180845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103336Z UID:85795-1614342600-1614348000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Vice City: Hong Kong in the Anglo-American War on Drugs\, 1970 – 1979 DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/vice-city-hong-kong-in-the-anglo-american-war-on-drugs-1970-1979/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210129T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210129T103000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240723T185509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103338Z UID:85838-1611910800-1611916200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Milk from the Butterfly Spring: State and Enterprise in the Yunnan Dairy Industry DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/milk-from-the-butterfly-spring-state-and-enterprise-in-the-yunnan-dairy-industry/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201204T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201204T103000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240723T214309Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103339Z UID:85881-1607072400-1607077800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Red Silk: Class\, Gender\, and Revolution in China’s Yangzi Delta Silk Industry DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/red-silk-class-gender-and-revolution-in-chinas-yangzi-delta-silk-industry/ CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201106T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201106T103000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20240723T222746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T103341Z UID:85924-1604653200-1604658600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/pirates-and-publishers-a-social-history-of-copyright-in-modern-china/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20111019T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20111019T170000 DTSTAMP:20261009T171458 CREATED:20110310T090742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T063256Z UID:101772-1319040000-1319043600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Healing and Heritage: Sorting Out Ethnic Traditional Medicine in Southwest China DESCRIPTION:Conference Program\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n (PDF version with full abstracts) \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese Business History in the Two Deltas \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 24 June \n \n \n \n 1.30pm-2pm: RegistrationLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus 2pm: WelcomeLocation: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus   Panel 1: 2.15pm-4.15pm:Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Paul Van Dyke (The University of Macau) – Gnewqua and Son: Merchants of Canton and Macao 1791-1810 Ivy Ye (Guangzhou University) – Canton Linguists and Their Legacy After the Demise of the Canton System Li Zigui (Sun Yat-sen University) – Awkward Mouthpiece: The Origins\, Operations and Evolution of the North-China Herald (1850—1870) Carmen C. M. Tsui (Lingnan University) – Concrete Connections: Green Island Cement and the Politics of Trade in China and British Hong Kong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 25 June \n \n \n \n Panel 2: 9.30am-11.30amChair: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Ding Meiqi (The University of Hong Kong) – The Imaginary Copper Coin in Southern China During the Qing Dynasty William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong) – Reconstructing the Life and Trade of Shanghai’s Great Nineteenth-Century Speculator Naomi He (University of Bristol) – Scientific Salesmen or Patriotic Elites? Life Insurance Agency in Republican China\, 1930–1949 Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) – Pawnbroking and Small Credit in Shanghai and the Yangzi Delta\, 1930s to the early 1950s  Panel 3: 12.30pm-2pmChair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) – God and Ancestors: The Sen Lineage\, Business Narratives\, and the French Jesuit Mission in Modern Yangzi Delta\, 1870-1930 Pan Yiying (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) – Undercurrents Preceding High-Modernist Dreams: Explorations for Yangzi River Conservancy in Early Republican China Catherine S. Chan (Lingnan University) and Kelvin Chan (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Protected Yet Trafficked in Cold War Hong Kong: Pangolins in the Global Trade of Traditional Chinese Medicine   Panel 4: 2.15pm-3.45pmChair: William R. Kelson (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Seng Guo-Quan (National University of Singapore) – Hong Kong\, Singapore and the Late Colonial Transformation of Transpacific Financial and Commodity Flows Stephanie Po Yin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University) – Kong Ngee\, Shaw Brothers\, and Cathay Across the Two Deltas: Film Circuits Between Shanghai (YRD)\, Singapore\, and Guangdong–Hong Kong (PRD)\, 1930–1970 Shi Yuanxie (The University of Chicago) – Flexible Networks: Hong Kong\, Chaoshan\, and the Global Lace Trade during the Cold War \n \n \n \n Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pmLocation: Lecture Hall\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong David Faure (The Chinese University of Hong Kong/Sun Yat-sen University) The End of the Silver Era: Silver Flow\, Banking and Monetary Changes\, Boom and Bust from the Late Qing to the Chinese Republic \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Details and Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 26 June \n \n \n \n Panel 5: 9.30am-11amChair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus Zhou Ruohan (University of Southern California) – The 1963 Japanese Industrial Exhibition and the Origin of China’s Manufacturing Ascension Huang Yanjie (National University of Singapore) – Marketing from the Margins: Brigade and Commune Enterprises in early 1970s Jiangsu Zhou Taomo (National University of Singapore) – The Spymaster and the Supply Chain: The Rise of Post-Socialist Logistics in Shenzhen\, China Closing Discussion (Possible Collaboration and Publications): 11.30am-12pmChairs: John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) & Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)Location: Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus URL:https://ihss.hku.hk/events/healing-and-heritage-sorting-out-ethnic-traditional-medicine-in-southwest-china/ LOCATION:T6\, 1/F\, Meng Wah Complex\, The University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/lecture-by-professor-judith-farquhar-20111019-960x1358-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR