See the conferences from CQH.
See the workshops from CQH.
Doctoral Research Webinar: Weaving a Modern Workforce: How Female Industrial Pioneers Refined Women’s Economic Role in Japan
Xinxian Li, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School, examines how female industrial pioneers helped mediate this tension by prompting more women to participate in factory employment during the early industrialization in late 19th to early 20th century Japan.
October 9, 2025
Doctoral Research Webinar: Imports and Industrialization in China, 1876-1936
Xinhao Li, Research PhD Candidate of HKU Business School, examines the impact of import penetration in 1876-1892 on subsequent industrial development in China from 1896 to 1936.
October 2, 2025
兩千年中國經濟增長 China’s GDP over Two Millennia
Runzhuo Zhai of Renmin University of China constructs, for the first time, a decadal GDP dataset for China from 220 BCE to 1949 CE, which, when linked to adjusted post-1949 data based on official surveys, offers a clear view of China’s economic performance over the past two millennia.
September 18, 2025
Masculinity Around the World
Our in-person Economic History Seminar Series, jointly organized with the Economics Area of HKU Business School, welcomes Ieda Matavelli to share her latest research on the masculinity norms.
May 14, 2024
Financial Shocks and Portfolio Preferences: Evidence from the Failure of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank
Our in-person Economic History Seminar Series, jointly organized with the Economics Area of HKU Business School, welcomes Gary Richardson to share his latest research on the failure of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank.
April 29, 2024