Conferences and SEMINAR TALKS

My invited talk "Economic History in Western Scholarship" at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

2022. The Chinese Economy in the Long Run, with Nuno Palma and Xiaobing Wang

o    Keynote Speakers: Stephen Broadberry (Oxford) and Richard von Glahn (UCLA)

o    Part of the CEPR Economic History Programme.

o    Sponsored by the British Academy, Manchester China Institute, and Manchester Arthur Lewis Lab.

2022.    Early Modern Science, Technology, and Institutions, with Nuno Palma

o    Keynote speakers: Debin Ma (University of Oxford) and David de la Croix (U. Catholique de Louvain)

o    Part of the CEPR Economic History Programme.

o    Sponsored by the British Academy and the University of Manchester.


Invited talk

2023.    ‘Economic History Study in Western Scholarship’, Economic History Seminar, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.

Other talks and presentations

2023.     ‘Traditions and innovations: The Rise and Decline of the Shanxi Piaohao in the Context of Growing Sino-Foreign Economic Interaction, the 1840s to 1910s’, Association of Business Historians Annual Conference, Northumbria University, UK

2023.      ‘Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Issuance of Banknotes in Republican China, 1915-1945’, The 9th World Cliometrics Conference, Trinity College, Dublin (forthcoming)

2023.   ‘Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Issuance of Banknotes in Republican China, 1915-1945’, Economic History Society Annual Meeting, University of Warwick, UK.

2022.    ‘The Rise and Decline of the Paper Money in Yuan China, 1260-1355’, Economic History Society Annual Meeting, University of Cambridge, UK.

2022.    ‘Adjustments and Vicissitudes: The Indirect Issuance of Banknotes in Republican China, 1915-1945’, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Virtual. 

2022.        ‘Traditions and innovations: An exploration of the governance structure, business strategy and historical development of the Chinese Shanxi piaohao(票号), the 1820s to 1930s’, Business History Annual Conference, Virtual

2018.   ‘Powerful Private Orders vs. Weak Legislations:  A Study of the Shanxi Piaohao’s Governance Structure’, Economic History Society Annual Meeting, University of Keele, UK.

2016.      ‘Revisiting the Historical Development of the Shanxi Piaohao’, Economic History Society Annual Meeting, Robison College, University of Cambridge, UK.

2015.      ‘Government or Market Driven? An Exploration of the Shanxi Piaohao’s Relationship with the Government’, Economic History Society Annual Meeting, University of Wolverhampton, UK.

2014.  ‘Shanxi Piaohao’s Incentive Mechanism’, Economic History Association Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, US.


As a founding member of the Arthur Lewis Lab, I also assist my colleagues in organizing the lab's conferences and seminar talks.