My invited talk "The First Precious Metal Standard in Monetary Policy: Paper Money Under the Mongols in China" at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
My invited talk "Economic History in Western Scholarship" at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
"The Chinese Economy in the Long Run Conference", I organized with Nuno Palma and Xiaobing Wang.
"Early Modern Science, Technology, and Institutions Conference", I organized with Nuno Palma.
My invited presentation "Business Organization, Personnel Management, and Governance Structure: A Study of the Shanxi Piaohao (Banks)", at the University of Hong Kong.
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 talks and presentations
2025 'The First Precious Metal Standard in Monetary Policy: Paper Money Under the Mongols in China', Hoover Institute, Stanford University.
2024. 'Business Organization, Personnel Management, and Governance Structure: A Study of the Shanxi Piaohao (Banks)', Chinese Business History Around the World Workshop, University of Hong Kong.
2023. ‘Economic History Study in Western Scholarship,’ Economic History Seminar, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
2022. ‘Chinese Economic History,’ British Academy Panel Session, Faculty Leadership Conference, University of Manchester, UK
Other talks and presentations
2024. ‘When Bimetallism Encountered the Gold Standard—A Study of the Dual Exchange Rates on China’s Trade and Prices, 1870-1910’, Economic History Society Annual Conference, Northumbria University, UK
2024. ‘Organizational Form, Personnel Management, and Governance Structure: A Study of the Shanxi Piaohao (Banks), the 1820s-1910s’ Legal Origins and Economic Development Conference, Arthur Lewis Lab, University of Manchester, UK
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.