“INNOVATING CHINESE BUSINESS HISTORY” WORKSHOP (OCT 18-19)
- Starting Time 活動開始時間
October 18, 2023 at 3:00 AM UTC
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October 18, 2023 at 11:00 AM GMT+8
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- Participants 嘉賓
18 October
Visit to the Hong Kong University Library: 11am-12pm
Location: Hong Kong University Library 2/F Entrance
Introduction to the Hong Kong Chinese Merchants Collection (in-person attendees only)
(Catalogue: https://archivesspace.lib.hku.hk/repositories/2/resources/17 ;
Digitised Items: https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/hkcmc)Panel 1: 2pm-4pm:
Chair: Ghassan Moazzin (The University of Hong Kong)
Location: May Hall
Speakers:
Thomas Larkin (University of Bristol/Lingnan University) -AugustineHeard & Co: The Anatomy of a Bankruptcy in Nineteenth-Century ChinaNathanael Lai (University of Cambridge) - In Support of the Zhongzhen: Loans, Textbooks, and the Cold War in 1950s Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
Jackie Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Engendered Entrepreneur: Women and the Politics of Business in Modern China
19 October
Location: May Hall
Panel 2: 10am-12pm
Chair: Li Ji (The University of Hong Kong)
Speakers:
Matthew Lowenstein (Stanford University) - “Popular Sources” (民间资料): opportunities, challenges, and methodologiesBill Kelson (University of Georgia) - A Proto-Developmental State? Revisiting the Mines of the Late-Qing Self-Strengthening Movement
Adam Frost (Copenhagen Business School) - Selective Deinstitutionalization: The Dialectics of Institutional Transformation in Maoist China
Lunch: 12pm-2pm (all registered participants)
Panel 3: 2pm-3pm
Chair: Li Yiwen (City University of Hong Kong)
Speakers:
Puk Wing Kin (Chinese University of Hong Kong) - Licking blood at the blade?: Dispute over lead and zinc mining contracts between the Hunan Mining Bureau and the Carlowitz & Co. (1914-1920)Billy So (The University of Hong Kong) and Sufumi So (The University of Hong Kong) - The Corporate Governance of the Shanghai Commercial Press in Historical and Comparative Perspective
Roundtable: New Directions in Chinese Business History : 3pm-4pm
Moderator: John Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
Tea Break: 4pm-4:30pm
Keynote Lecture: 4.30pm-6pm
Speaker:
Elisabeth Köll (University of Notre Dame) - A History of Pawnbroking in China across the 20th Century: Examples of Opportunities for and Challenges in Business History Research- Organizers 主協辦機構
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Supported by the Louis Cha Fund of the Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong- Mode 活動形式
- Hybrid
- Venue 地點
- May Hall, The University of Hong Kong
- Languages 語言
- English
- Description 詳情
The Chinese Business History research cluster at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to invite you to the following workshop. The workshop will be held in hybrid mode, so you are welcome to join us in person or via Zoom.
Date and Time: October 18-19, 2023 (Wed-Thu)
Register now: https://forms.gle/MxNSQa6J9yegQqCd6If you have any questions about this workshop, please contact Dr. John D. Wong (jdwong@hku.hk) or Dr. Ghassan Moazzin (gmoazzin@hku.hk).
Drs. John D. Wong and Ghassan Moazzin
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and The Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong- Registration & Video Recording 登記與錄影
Registration is required. 活動需要登記。
The event is not recorded. 活動過程不會錄影。
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