About the Quantitative History Webinar Series
The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series provides researchers, teachers, and students with an online intellectual platform to stay up to date with the latest research in the field. It promotes the dissemination of research findings and the interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. Now entering its seventh year, the QH Webinar Series is co-organised by the Centre for Quantitative History at HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History, in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The series is substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. AoE/B-704/22-R).
Quantitative Analyses of The Religious Book Market in Qing China Based on CRTA Data
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Vincent Goossaert will introduce the nature of CRTA data and present some of the ways in which mapping this corpus can give us new insights about late imperial religious print culture.
清代江蘇士人的家世、仕進與社會流動 Family Background, Official Advancement, and Social Mobility of the Jiangsu Literati in the Qing Dynasty
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Qin Jiang will demonstrate that while the examination system indeed provided avenues for social mobility, the influence of family background was more evident in elevating descendants to higher examination degree.
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.
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.
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.
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.