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:20250101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260206T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260206T100000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260210T005325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102822Z UID:96375-1770368400-1770372000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Understanding Global Connectivity through Grassroots Mobility: The Reorganization of Techno-Social Networks among the Upper Yangzi Shipping Groups\, 1850-1937 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/understanding-global-connectivity-through-grassroots-mobility-the-reorganization-of-techno-social-networks-among-the-upper-yangzi-shipping-groups-1850-1937/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260206_CBH_PanYiying_Banner-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260205T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260205T173000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260210T000028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102838Z UID:96315-1770307200-1770312600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Quantitative Analyses of The Religious Book Market in Qing China Based on CRTA Data 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/quantitative-analyses-of-the-religious-book-market-in-qing-china-based-on-crta-data/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Quantitative-History-Webinar-Series-10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260203T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260203T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260209T233013Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102950Z UID:96277-1770121800-1770125400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Hong Kong Dollar: Mediating China’s Participation in Global Capitalism since the Nineteenth 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/hong-kong-dollar-mediating-chinas-participation-in-global-capitalism-since-the-nineteenth-century/ LOCATION:Rm 201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong (Map)\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260203_IRS_John-Wong_banner-1080-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260130T143000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260130T163000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260129T165549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102952Z UID:97383-1769783400-1769790600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Sports as Method: An Alternative Approach to Study Chinese Tradition and Civilization 體育作為方法: 另一個角度看中國文明傳統 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/sports-as-method-an-alternative-approach-to-study-chinese-tradition-and-civilization-%e9%ab%94%e8%82%b2%e4%bd%9c%e7%82%ba%e6%96%b9%e6%b3%95-%e5%8f%a6%e4%b8%80%e5%80%8b%e8%a7%92%e5%ba%a6%e7%9c%8b/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/202601-Book-Launch_IHSS-Banner_1920x615_page-0001-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260129T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260129T183000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260128T173747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102952Z UID:97402-1769707800-1769711400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Entrepreneurial Giving Empowers People & Communities 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/entrepreneurial-giving-empowers-people-communities/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, G/F\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\,\, Hong Kong CATEGORIES:HKU Family Wealth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/20260129_FWS_Joy-Lo-Cheung_banner_615.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260129T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260129T173000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260128T170210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102838Z UID:97390-1769702400-1769707800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:清代江蘇士人的家世、仕進與社會流動 Family Background\, Official Advancement\, and Social Mobility of the Jiangsu Literati in the Qing Dynasty 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/%e6%b8%85%e4%bb%a3%e6%b1%9f%e8%98%87%e5%a3%ab%e4%ba%ba%e7%9a%84%e5%ae%b6%e4%b8%96%e3%80%81%e4%bb%95%e9%80%b2%e8%88%87%e7%a4%be%e6%9c%83%e6%b5%81%e5%8b%95-family-background-official-advancement-and-s/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Quantitative-History-Webinar-Series-8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260127T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260127T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260227T101220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102952Z UID:97839-1769517000-1769520600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Knowledge for Lineage: Queen\, Keju and Social Mobility in Tang 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/knowledge-for-lineage-queen-keju-and-social-mobility-in-tang-china/ LOCATION:Rm 201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong (Map)\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-3.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260120T163000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260120T180000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260227T103140Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102835Z UID:97844-1768926600-1768932000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:True Colors of China: Yellow\, Blue\, and Red 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/true-colors-of-china-yellow-blue-and-red/ LOCATION:Rayson Huang Theatre\, HKU CATEGORIES:IHSS,IHSS Public Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-5.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260116T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260116T163000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T083318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102953Z UID:97890-1768575600-1768581000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Buddhist Manuscript Studies in Southeast Asia: The case of Luang Prabang\, Laos 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/buddhist-manuscript-studies-in-southeast-asia-the-case-of-luang-prabang-laos/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:ASIAR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-8.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251209T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251209T190000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T084603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102953Z UID:97898-1765301400-1765306800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Wealth Transfer in China: Insights from an Institutional Investor 中國家族財富傳承—來自機構投資者的觀察 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/wealth-transfer-in-china-insights-from-an-institutional-investor-%e4%b8%ad%e5%9c%8b%e5%ae%b6%e6%97%8f%e8%b2%a1%e5%af%8c%e5%82%b3%e6%89%bf-%e4%be%86%e8%87%aa%e6%a9%9f%e6%a7%8b%e6%8a%95/ LOCATION:G01\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong CATEGORIES:HKU Family Wealth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-10.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251205T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251205T140000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T085435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102953Z UID:97905-1764937800-1764943200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Studying Elite Politics through Conversation Networks: Elite Conflicts and the Making of the Chinese Reform 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/studying-elite-politics-through-conversation-networks-elite-conflicts-and-the-making-of-the-chinese-reform/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-12.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251205T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251205T100000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T090102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102823Z UID:97911-1764925200-1764928800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:DuPont’s Departure: An Early Case of U.S.-China Decoupling\, 1946-1951 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/duponts-departure-an-early-case-of-u-s-china-decoupling-1946-1951/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-14.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251201T143000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251201T163000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T092335Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102953Z UID:97919-1764599400-1764606600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Crafting Everyday Food edited by Angela Ki Che Leung and Hallam Stevens 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/crafting-everyday-food-edited-by-angela-ki-che-leung-and-hallam-stevens/ LOCATION:4.36 Run Run Sjaw Tower\, HKU CATEGORIES:IHSS ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-16.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251125T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251125T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T095327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102954Z UID:97929-1764073800-1764077400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Survival of the Strongest: How Iron Technology Led to the Founding of the First Unified Chinese Empire in 221 BCE 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/survival-of-the-strongest-how-iron-technology-led-to-the-founding-of-the-first-unified-chinese-empire-in-221-bce/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-18.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251120T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251120T140000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T100008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102839Z UID:97935-1763641800-1763647200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Revisiting Mass Action Incidents in Late Qing China\, 1902-1911 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/revisiting-mass-action-incidents-in-late-qing-china-1902-1911/ LOCATION:G01\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-20.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251118T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251118T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T100513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102954Z UID:97940-1763469000-1763472600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Cooking the Barbarians\, Conquering the Forest: Lanten Yao Spiritual Warfare at the Margins of Chinese and Tai Polities 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/cooking-the-barbarians-conquering-the-forest-lanten-yao-spiritual-warfare-at-the-margins-of-chinese-and-tai-polities/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-21.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251117T150000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251117T170000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T101506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102954Z UID:97946-1763391600-1763398800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:How Daoism Became American: A Tale of Translation\, Conservation\, Immigration\, Appropriation and Impersonation 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/how-daoism-became-american-a-tale-of-translation-conservation-immigration-appropriation-and-impersonation/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:ASIAR ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-24.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251113T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251113T173000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T102404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102839Z UID:97952-1763049600-1763055000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Spousal occupations in the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley 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/spousal-occupations-in-the-twentieth-century-yangtze-valley/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-25.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251113T053000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251113T190000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T102936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102955Z UID:97957-1763011800-1763060400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Fostering Sustainable Growth and Family Unity: A Fireside Chat with Mr Mahesh Harilela 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/fostering-sustainable-growth-and-family-unity-a-fireside-chat-with-mr-mahesh-harilela/ LOCATION:G01\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong CATEGORIES:HKU Family Wealth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-27.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251111T110000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251111T120000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T103425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102955Z UID:97963-1762858800-1762862400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Religion\, Secularism\, and Love as a Political Discourse 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/religion-secularism-and-love-as-a-political-discourse-in-modern-china/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-28.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251107T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251107T100000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T122548Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102823Z UID:97969-1762506000-1762509600@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Sideline or Factory: Locating Socialist Flexibility in Export Lacemaking Industries 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/sideline-or-factory-locating-socialist-flexibility-in-export-lacemaking-industries/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-30.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251104T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251104T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T123226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102955Z UID:97975-1762259400-1762263000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:“Middle Women Rising (zhongnü jueqi)”: Framing Gendered Spiritual Empowerment in Contemporary 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/middle-women-rising-zhongnu-jueqi-framing-gendered-spiritual-empowerment-in-contemporary-china/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-32.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251028T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251028T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T123747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102955Z UID:97981-1761654600-1761658200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:The Curse of Lu Ban: Rumors of Carpenter Sorcery\, 1350–Present 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-curse-of-lu-ban-rumors-of-carpenter-sorcery-1350-present/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-34.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251024T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251024T220000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T124826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102824Z UID:97987-1761296400-1761343200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:From Importer to the Technological Frontier: China’s Automobile 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/from-importer-to-the-technological-frontier-chinas-automobile-industry/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-36.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251023T173000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251023T190000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T130229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102956Z UID:97993-1761240600-1761246000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Navigating Turbulence: Unlocking Value for Chinese Family Businesses Through Restructuring and Renewal 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/navigating-turbulence-unlocking-value-for-chinese-family-businesses-through-restructuring-and-renewal/ LOCATION:G01\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong CATEGORIES:HKU Family Wealth Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-39.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251021T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251021T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T130646Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102956Z UID:97999-1761049800-1761053400@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Writing Christianity into Chinese History: Archaeology\, Economic History\, and Political Ideology 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/writing-christianity-into-chinese-history-archaeology-economic-history-and-political-ideology/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-40.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251009T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251009T173000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T131609Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102839Z UID:98005-1760025600-1760031000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Doctoral Research Webinar: Weaving a Modern Workforce: How Female Industrial Pioneers Refined Women’s Economic Role in Japan 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/doctoral-research-webinar-weaving-a-modern-workforce-how-female-industrial-pioneers-refined-womens-economic-role-in-japan/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-42-scaled.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251002T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20251002T173000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T133432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102839Z UID:98010-1759420800-1759426200@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Doctoral Research Webinar: Imports and Industrialization in China\, 1876-1936 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/doctoral-research-webinar-imports-and-industrialization-in-china-1876-1936/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Quantitative History,Quantitative History Webinar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-43.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250930T123000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250930T133000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T134732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102957Z UID:98015-1759235400-1759239000@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Marketing Africa: Production of Knowledge about Africa by Businesspeople on Chinese Short-Video Platforms 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/marketing-africa-production-of-knowledge-about-africa-by-businesspeople-on-chinese-short-video-platforms/ LOCATION:201\, May Hall\, The University of Hong Kong\, or Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-44.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250926T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20250926T100000 DTSTAMP:20261108T224353 CREATED:20260228T135505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260416T102824Z UID:98021-1758877200-1758880800@ihss.hku.hk SUMMARY:Chinese Workers of the World: Colonialism\, Chinese Labor\, and the Yunnan–Indochina Railway 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-workers-of-the-world-colonialism-chinese-labor-and-the-yunnan-indochina-railway/ LOCATION:Via Zoom CATEGORIES:Chinese Business History,Chinese Business History Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihss.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/image-46.jpeg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR