Recent scholarship of pre-modern empires likes to portray pre-modern empires as being tolerant of diversities and differences ...
In this talk Dr. Xiaoxuan Wang will present preliminary ideas and findings from his ongoing project ...
ABSTRACT Postwar Hong Kong experienced some of the fastest economic growth in the developing world. What has received less recognition, however, is that productivity was just as exceptional, outpaced only by Japan. Scholars have focused on the former phenomenon through comparative advantage and low-cost labor but overlooked the latter, thereby conflating growth with development. Drawing […]
From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy ...
How do external threats on state sovereignty benefit local development? Christopher Paik of ...
This seminar will examine Africa in the evolving BRI with special interest in security ...
This presentation gives context to an award winning urban revitalization project in Bangkok along the Ong Ang Canal ...
Archaeological discoveries since 1921 have established that complex societies, as represented by densely-populated walled cities ...
Is art a haven in times of political or financial crisis? To answer this question, Yuexin Li of Renmin University of ...
What does it mean to speak the Chinese language? The most common answer to this question would be Mandarin ...
This is an event organized by the CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of ...
My work examines Chinese women and business in twentieth-century China ...
ESG has gained prominence in Asia including Hong Kong for a relatively short period of time ...
Macau's 123 Incident in 1966 – 67 is best known as a side-show to the Cultural Revolution ...
Benjamin Enke of Harvard University and his co-authors examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts ...
What did it mean to be a Chinese Christian in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? ...
Despite different arguments on how porous or rigid the boundary between Chinese and Africans is ...
Based on the Xingke Tiben (刑科題本 Board of Punishments Routine Memorials), Cheng Yang of Renmin University of China assesses the long-run economic development of China ...
In May 1983, two Chinese engineers spent ten days visiting the decrepit Bolton Falls Dam on the Winooski River in upper Vermont ...
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This talk will place the famous 1619 voyage to Virginia within the context of the larger Iberian (i.e. Spanish and Portuguese) world slave system of which it was essentially an extension ...
In this Quantitative History Webinar, the Areas of Excellence (AoE) project team member Cameron Campbell of HKUST ...
This talk presents some of the preliminary ideas and findings of Dr. Ha Guangtian’s ongoing project which examines the role of multi-racial ...
The trading voyages to the Pearl River delta made by British, American and European ships in the eighteenth and early nineteenth ...
