See the conferences from CQH.
See the workshops from CQH.
Revisiting Mass Action Incidents in Late Qing China, 1902-1911
Hanzhi Deng makes a quantitative breakthrough by establishing a panel dataset of 266 prefectures over 10 years. He collects data on ‘new policy’ progress and mass action incidents from various sources, such as chronologies, fiscal statistics, and other compilations. During this lecture, Hanzhi Deng examines relevant mechanisms, such as how state expropriation of previous civil properties and the rising inequality in the distribution of new public goods caused pervasive resentment.
November 20, 2025
中世紀中國與阿拉伯海商組織比較研究
在前人研究基礎上，陳燁軒利用傳世文獻、碑銘、文書和沉船考古資料，復原阿拉伯和中國商人的遠航路線，分析商船的組織和貨物管理，探討中世紀的國際貿易模式。
May 22, 2025
Spousal Occupations in the Twentieth-century Yangtze Valley
During this Quantitative History Webinar, Ying Dai will explain that the spousal occupations are shaped by both marriage formation and post-marriage occupational decisions in the twentieth-century Yangtze Valley.
November 13, 2025
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
The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality
Our in-person Economic History Seminar Series, jointly organized with the Economics Area of HKU Business School, welcomes Professor Samuel Bowles to share his findings on the origins of enduring inequality.
November 17, 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