Date(s)May 8, 2024
Time10:00 - 18:15
Display Area, May Hall, HKU
Language(s)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
School of History
Renmin University of China
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
Associate Professor in Economics
Associate Director, Centre for Quantitative History
HKU Business School
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
Chinese University of Hong Kong
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 Economic History
Faculty of History
Fellow, All Souls College
University of Oxford
Professor of History
Director, Centre for Environmental History and Development
Department of History
Lingnan University
| Programme | Presenter | ||
| 09:30 – 09:57 | Refreshments | ||
| 09:57 – 10:00 | Welcome Remarks by Zhiwu Chen | ||
| Ancient Roots from Quantitative Perspectives Research Cluster (Chair: Chicheng) | |||
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Maritime Trade and the Rise of China’s South, 700-2010 CE | Zhiwu Chen | |
| 10:40 – 11:20 | Progress in building databases on archaeology, genealogy, and epitaph in China | Zhan Lin | |
| Culture, Religion and Long-Term Consequences Research Cluster (Chair: Debin) | |||
| 11:35 – 12:15 | Research on Qing Officialdom with the CGED-Q | Cameron Campbell | |
| 12:15 – 12:55 | Why the Song Dynasty? the Rise of a Merchant Class and the Emergence of Meritocracy in China | Ting Chen | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| Financial History, Trade, and Hong Kong as a Financial Centre Research Cluster (Chair: Cameron) | |||
| 14:15 – 14:55 | Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860–1911 | Chicheng Ma | |
| 14:55 – 15:35 | A summary of current research | Chen Lin | |
| State Capacity, Institutions, and Development Research Cluster (Chair: Zhiwu) | |||
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Quantifying Chinese History: Old Ideas and New Projects | Debin Ma | |
| 16:30 – 17:10 | State and Spatial Distribution: A Thousand-Year Analysis of Salt Industry in China | Ying Bai | |
| 17:10 – 17:50 | Studying the Bureaucratic Government in a Quantitative Way: the collection, collation and analysis of official data in public finance and military sections of Song huiyao jigao 宋會要輯稿 | William Guanglin Liu | |
| 17:50 – 18:15 | Closing Remarks & Post-Workshop Discussion | ||
Lunch is by invitation only.