During the Second World War the Nazis wiped out the world of Jewish scholarship centred in Talmudic academies or ‘Yeshivot’ in Europe ...
How the interaction between resources and society shaped the social world is an important anthropological concern ...
In unified growth models, a key to achieving sustained economic growth is the evolving nexus between population dynamics and technological change ...
Scholars have long debated whether the Chinese economy has been in a secular decline since the nineteenth century ...
As a portable wealth, gold was highly valued by mobile pastoralists for its monetary and aesthetic values in ancient Eurasia ...
In the late second millennium BC, the socio-political landscape of early China underwent a major rupture when the Zhou and their coalition of highland allies conquered the Late Shang state (ca. 1250-1046 BC) at Anyang ...
China’s large and valuable pre-1949 cattle trade is effectively invisible to historians ...
Trade has historically driven Taiwan’s economic growth, with cane sugar dominating exports from the 1620s to the 1960s. ...
Islam arrived in China during the 7th century as a foreign religion. Yet, once the first Muslims settled permanently there, Islamic religious and cultural traditions were gradually influenced by the norms of Chinese culture and society...
Join us for the highly anticipated book launch event celebrating the release of "The Population History of China (1368–1953)" by our Honorary Professor Shuji Cao ...
In the early 1930s Gaoyang (in Hebei province) was the center of one of China’s best known rural industrial districts ...
Cong Liu of Jinan University and her co-authors study foreign firms’ responses to boycotts ...
This paper is concerned with the significance of rituals in transnational extractive operations ...
Archaeological discoveries since 1921 have established that complex societies, as represented by densely-populated walled cities ...
China’s deepening ties with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in the last decade ...
This talk briefly introduces HKU's ongoing archaeological fieldwork in the South Caucasian country of Armenia ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
Kevin O’Rourke of NYU Abu Dhabi and team use a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936 ...
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), ten years since it began, has become China’s guiding foreign engagement and economic governance principle in the Xi Jinping era ...
The Making of China’s Post Office traces the origins and early development of the country’s modern postal system ...
1970s Hong Kong is usually remembered as a period of optimism, progress, and constructive reinvention ...
An exploration of ritual practices in Chinese history and anthropology, as well as indigenous ritual theory concerning these practices ...
Over the past several decades governments across the world have begun targeting price stability in financial markets ...
Cities are seen as humanity’s greatest inventions. As political, socio-economic, and cultural centres, they are demonstrations of human ingenuity, power, and capacity to manipulate resources and the environment ...
