Employment:
Research Fellow, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne (2024-)
Field of interests:
Economic History, Political Economy, Development Economics, Comparative Politics
Education:
Ph.D., Economics, University of Hong Kong, 2023
Research:
The Rise of the Chinese Clan. (With James Kung, UoM). [SSRN]
[Job Market Paper]
[This version: January 09, 26]
Presentation: APEBH 2026, Renmin University of China, Nankai, Tsinghua-PKU Economic History Workshop, CESA 2025, Global GLO-JOPE Conference 2025, EHA 2025, PacDev 2025, SYSU, Fudan, XMU, UoM, UWA, ANU, ZJU
Epidemics and Conflicts: Lessons from Imperial China. (With Zheng Su, THU, and Xun Cao, PSU).
[International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming]
Ideology, Revolutionary Redistribution and Mobilization in Civil War. (With Ning He, UGA).
[Conditionally Accepted at Journal of Peace Research]
The Shadow Cost of State Violence. (With Ning He, UGA).
[Comparative Political Studies, 2026]
Can Tax Relief Reduce Civil Conflicts? State Capacity and Violence in Late Qing China. (With Zheng Su, THU).
[Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Peace Research]
S 村礼物交换的社会史考察 (A Social History of Gift Exchange in S Village: 1949–1978).
2018, In Huilin Lu et, al. (Eds.), Selected Outstanding Sociological Master’s Theses
from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Renmin University (2017) (pp. 311–
369), Beijing: China Development Press.
Teaching Experiences:
Deaprtment of Econmics, The University of Melbourne：
TA for Topics in Asian Economic History; World Economic History
Deaprtment of Econmics, The University of Hong Kong:
TA for Political Economy of Development; Empirical Analysis of China; Senior Seminar in Economics
Division of Social Sciences, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology:
TA for Social Movements and Contentious Politics, Economic Development in China, Social Science Research and Methods
Contact Information:
Office 430, FBE Building, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
Email: wenbing.wu@unimelb.edu.au; wenbing@connect.hku.hk
