Date(s)October 25, 2023 - October 26, 2023
May Hall, HKU Campus
Language(s)English
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s)
Chair of Finance
Cheng Yu-Tung Professor in Finance
Director, Centre for Quantitative History
Director, HK Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
HKU Business School
Associate Professor in Economics
Associate Director, Centre for Quantitative History
HKU Business School
Chair of Finance
Stelux Professor in Finance
Associate Vice-President
Associate Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange)
Director, Centre for Financial Innovation and Development
DBA Programme Director
HKU Business School
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Acting Dean of Humanities and Social Science
Chair Professor, Division of Social Science
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Associate Head (Research) and Associate Professor
Department of Accountancy, Economics and Finance
Associate Director, Centre for Business Analytics and the Digital Economy
Hong Kong Baptist University
Professor
Faculty of Science, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment
University of Calgary
Associate Professor
School of History
Renmin University of China
Professor of History
Director, Centre for Environmental History and Development
Department of History
Lingnan University
Professor of Economic History
Faculty of History
Fellow, All Souls College
University of Oxford
Description
About Us
The AoE-QH Team has chosen 4 theme clusters to examine key dimensions of how China and Hong Kong got to where they are: 1) ancient roots, 2) culture, 3) state capacity & institutions, and 4) finance, trade & Hong Kong.
Objective
To conduct big data-based historical inquiries with quantitative methods to construct a holistic quantitative picture of China’s past development.
Methodology
The quantitative history approach begins with the construction of large datasets from archives & archaeological records. It not only reconstructs trends & patterns but also uses big data to assess causal relationships.
To conduct big data-based historical inquiries with quantitative methods to construct a holistic quantitative picture of China’s past development.
The AoE-QH Team has chosen 4 theme clusters to examine key dimensions of how China and Hong Kong got to where they are: 1) ancient roots, 2) culture, 3) state capacity & institutions, and 4) finance, trade & Hong Kong.
Results/Findings
Our project team and collaborators will showcase their preliminary research findings, contributing to the ever-evolving world of research.
Conclusion – JOIN US!
Limited seats available. Please email cqhcomm@hku.hk to reserve your spot.
Full Programme Rundown
Day 1 – October 25 (Wed)
| 08:15-08:55 | Refreshments Welcome Remarks by Zhiwu Chen | ||
| Theme 1: Ancient Roots from Quantitative Perspectives Chair: Billy K. L. So (HKU) | SPEAKERS | DISCUSSANTS | |
| 09:00-09:45 | War and Demand for Technology: Archaeological Evidence from Early China, by Zhiwu Chen, Senhao Hu, and Zhan Lin | Zhiwu Chen (HKU) | Tetsuji Okazaki (Tokyo) |
| 09:45-10:30 | Origins of power actors in historical China: How war made some regions produce more elites than others, by Zhiwu Chen, Wanda Wang, and Xiaoyang Zhang | Wanda Wang (HKU) | Paul Seabright (Toulouse) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:50-11:35 | The spread of rice agriculture in Neolithic China: Environmental constraints, and adaptation and innovations in land use, by Jed O. Kaplan, Fabio Silva, and Dorian Q. Fuller | Jed O. Kaplan (Calgary) | Ting Chen (HKBU) |
| 11:35-12:20 | Six Thousand Years of Inequality in Neolithic Yellow and Yangtze River Basins, by Zhiwu Chen, Suwei Guo, Dongdong Li, and Zhan Lin | Dongdong Li (CASS) | Cameron Campbell (HKUST) |
| 12:30-14:40 | Group Photo (Proposed) and Lunch | ||
| Theme 2: Culture, Religion, and Long-Term Consequences Chair: Debin Ma (Oxford) | |||
| 14:00-14:45 | Spatial Distribution Analysis of Green Standard Army military officers in the Mid-Late Qing Dynasty: Results from the CGED-Q Zhongshubeilan (ZSBL), by Jun Chen and Cameron Campbell | Jun Chen (Central China Normal) | Tuan-Hwee Sng (NUS) |
| 14:45-15:30 | War Breeds Warriors: Long-term Impacts of Historical Conflicts on Warrior Culture Formation, by Yicheng Chen, Zhiwu Chen, and Chicheng Ma | Yicheng Chen (Boston) | Tuan-Hwee Sng (NUS) |
| 15:30-15:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:50-16:35 | The Impact of Crises on the Careers of County Magistrates in China during the Qing, 1830 to 1912, by Cameron Campbell and Shuaiqi Gao | Cameron Campbell (HKUST) | Jin Li (HKU) |
| 16:35-17:20 | Kin Networks and Migration Patterns in Rural China, 1949-1966, by Matthew Noellert and Xiangning Li | Matthew Noellert (Hitotsubashi) | Duoduo Xu (HKU) |
Day 2 – October 26 (Thu)
| 08:15 | Refreshments | ||
| Theme 3: State Capacity, Institutions and Development Chair: Chicheng Ma (HKU) | SPEAKERS | DISCUSSANTS | |
| 09:00-09:45 | State Capacity in Imperial China – Quantifying a Millennium of Public Finance (997-1911 AD), by Hanhui Guan, Debin Ma, and Runzhuo Zhai | Debin Ma (Oxford) | Tuan-Hwee Sng (NUS) |
| 09:45-10:30 | How to Wage Wars: The Rise of the Financial Market at Kaifeng in Northern Song China, by William Guanglin Liu and Kai Wan Kwan | William Guanglin Liu (Lingnan) | Tetsuji Okazaki (Tokyo) |
| 10:30-10:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:50-11:35 | Top-down Monitoring or Top-down Encroachment? How Centralization Undermined Fiscal Capacity in China, by Max Hao and Kevin Z. Liu | Kevin Z. Liu (HKU) | William Guanglin Liu (Lingnan) |
| 11:35-12:20 | Quantitative Study of Regicide in China, by Zhiwu Chen and Zhan Lin | Zhiwu Chen (HKU) | Jin Li (HKU) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Group Photo (Proposed) and Lunch | ||
| 14:00-14:45 | Protestantism and Agricultural Development: Evidence from China, 1920s-30s, by Ying Bai and Xiaoyu Bian | Ying Bai (CUHK) | Paul Seabright (Toulouse) |
| Theme 4: Financial History, Trade and the Rise of Hong Kong as a Financial Centre Chair: Ying Bai (CUHK) | |||
| 14:45-15:30 | Christian Missionaries and Foreign Trade: 1500-1936, by Zhiwu Chen, Xinhao Li, and Chicheng Ma | Chicheng Ma (HKU) | Paul Seabright (Toulouse) |
| 15:30-15:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:50-16:35 | The Rise and Fall of Traditional Banks in Historical China: A Political Explanation, by Wentian Diao and Jinyan Hu | Wentian Diao (NUS) | Debin Ma (Oxford) |
| 16:35-17:20 | Between Merchants and Mandarins: Monetary Shocks and Occupational Choice in Late Ming China, by Chen Lin, Chicheng Ma, and Jiongyi Xue | Jiongyi Xue (HKU) | Ying Bai (CUHK) |
Lunches and dinners are by invitation only.
This conference is supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project Reference Number: AoE/B-704/22-R).
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