Description Plague was the most lethal disease in early modern England. However, there is limited large-scale quantitative evidence about the factors that allowed plague to spread between settlements. In this […]
ABSTRACT Daoist priests in central and northern Hunan Province (PRC), an area known as Plum Mountain (Meishan 梅山), are the custodians of many local traditions. Among them is an ancient […]
DESCRIPTION In this Quantitative History Webinar, Lukas Rosenberger of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich will introduce a new approach to understanding technological progress and economic growth during the Industrial Revolution by combining modern […]
ABSTRACT This talk investigates how local constructions of the “national fengshui master” (guoshi 國師) reshaped geomantic discourse in the Ming in ways that indirectly reinforced the imperial model of centralized […]
BRIEF INTRODUCTION Though he died 35 years ago, the Harvard historian John Fairbank remains alive through the influence of his ideas, students and image as a major figure in US-China […]
ABSTRACT In the post-2020 era, South America has become a key arena for Chinese global enterprise, with Chinese goods and services achieving unprecedented popularity. This presentation argues that the groundwork […]
ABSTRACTSuccessful entrepreneurs learn to grow and adapt to different situations and environments as they build their start-ups in an evolving world. Leadership is important in bringing together different parties with […]
DESCRIPTION In this Quantitative History Webinar, Patrick Fitzsimmons of the University of Pennsylvania will present a theory of how lowering the cost of doing violence around 1200 BCE contributed to political fragmentation across […]
ABSTRACTThis study examines how stone-grinding technology accelerated the growth of complex societies in Neolithic China (8000–2000 BCE) primarily through the war channel rather than the productivity channel. Utilizing data from […]
BRIEF INTRODUCTIONAn acclaimed historian’s bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now […]
ABSTRACTFamily offices are not a one-size-fits-all solution. Their structure and strategy are deeply influenced by two powerful forces: the generation of wealth they serve and the geographic culture they emerge […]
ABSTRACTAcross cultures and centuries, emotions have been expressed, encoded, and preserved in both texts and images. Recent advances in affective computing now offer new opportunities to study these emotional traces […]
DESCRIPTION Using a genealogical database of 447,000 people in England 1600-2025, as well as 1.7 million marriage records 1837-2021, Professor Gregory Clark of the University of Southern Denmark and his […]
ABSTRACTForming part of a book project that explores how American capital participated in China’s postwar economic reconstruction, this talk traces three different channels through which Chinese businessmen sought to bring […]
DESCRIPTION Combining detailed data on language and migration across colonial Indian districts in 1901 with a gravity model, Professor James Fenske of the University of Warwick and his co-authors find […]
ABSTRACTThis book examines China–Indonesia relations in 2025, marking 75 years of diplomatic ties amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty. Cooperation across trade, investment, infrastructure, technology—including artificial intelligence (AI)—and defense expanded, even as […]
One of the two doctrinal pillars of Sun Yat-sen’s Principal of the People’s Livelihood was to “contain the capital,” which was never clearly defined and invited conflicting readings over the years.
Ho Amei is a fascinating figure. He was a pioneer in modern capitalist enterprises such as telegraphy, insurance, waterworks, and high-technology mining;
Before the late twentieth century, the Upper Yangzi River and its tributaries had long been formidable, so navigation along these river segments hinged on various shipping groups on the ground.
The CRTA open-access database (https://crta.info/wiki/Main_Page) has, per January 2026, descriptions of nearly 6,000 editions of religious texts, mostly for the 1550-1940 period.
As a Western foothold at the southern tip of China, Hong Kong has played a crucial role as China’s interface with the rest of the world since the nineteenth century. The appeal of Hong Kong must be understood within a broader regional and national context.
